# Advantages

#### Ease of Use

- You can directly push and pull container images without platform build or O&M.
- SWR provides an easy-to-use management console for full lifecycle management over container images.

#### Security and Reliability

- SWR supports HTTPS to ensure secure image transmission, and provides multiple security isolation mechanisms between and inside accounts.
- Based on professional storage services, SWR provides highly reliable storage service for your container images.

#### Image Acceleration

- SWR uses the P2P image download acceleration technology to ensure faster image pull for CCE clusters in high concurrency scenarios.
- Intelligent node scheduling around the globe ensures that your image build tasks can be automatically assigned to the idle nodes nearest to the image repository.

Parent topic: Service Overview