[glenjamin]

If you’re running inside AWS us-east-1 then docker hub will give you direct S3 URLs for layer downloads (or it used to anyway)

Any pulls doing this become zero cost for docker hub

Any sort of cache you put between docker hub and your own infra would probably be S3 backed anyway, so adding another cache in between could be mostly a waste

[jacobwg]

Yeah we do some similar tricks with our registry[0]: pushes and pulls from inside AWS are served directly from AWS for maximum performance and no data transfer cost. Then when the client is outside AWS, we redirect all that to Tigris[1], also for maximum performance (CDN) and minimum data transfer cost (no cost from Tigris, just the cost to move content out of AWS once).

[0]: https://depot.dev/blog/introducing-depot-registry

[1]: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/depot-registry/