**To start an image vulnerability scan** The following ``start-image-scan`` example starts an image scan for and specified by the image digest in the `specified` repository. :: aws ecr start-image-scan \ --repository-name sample-repo \ --image-id imageDigest=sha256:74b2c688c700ec95a93e478cdb959737c148df3fbf5ea706abe0318726e885e6 Output:: { "registryId": "012345678910", "repositoryName": "sample-repo", "imageId": { "imageDigest": "sha256:74b2c688c700ec95a93e478cdb959737c148df3fbf5ea706abe0318726e885e6" }, "imageScanStatus": { "status": "IN_PROGRESS" } } For more information, see `Image Scanning <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/image-scanning.html>`__ in the *Amazon ECR User Guide*.