Is there a free solution for fetching an artifact from another pipeline?

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I have a pipeline that:

  1. Builds a Docker image upon commit on main.
  2. Pushes the built Docker image to AWS ECR upon manual tag creation.
stages:
  - build_qa
  - push_qa

workflow:
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG 
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"

build qa:
  stage: build_qa
  image: 
    name: amazon/aws-cli
    entrypoint: [""]
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"
  services:
    - docker:dind
  before_script:
    - amazon-linux-extras install docker
    - aws --version
    - docker --version
    - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID_QA
    - export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_QA
    - aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $DOCKER_REGISTRY_QA
  script:
    - docker build -t $IMAGE_TAG_QA .
    # tars the image and exports it to the artifact folder:
    - mkdir image
    - docker save $IMAGE_TAG_QA > image/qa_latest.tar
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - image

push to qa:
  dependencies:
    - build qa
  stage: push_qa
  image:
    name: amazon/aws-cli
    entrypoint: [""]
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG != null
  services:
    - docker:dind
  before_script:
    - amazon-linux-extras install docker
    - aws --version
    - docker --version
    - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID_QA
    - export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_QA
    - aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $DOCKER_REGISTRY_QA
  script:
    # loads image from artifcact
    - docker load -i image/qa_latest.tar
    # creates a new image tag based on the created tag:
    - export NEW_IMAGE_TAG_QA="$DOCKER_REGISTRY_QA/$APP_NAME:$CI_COMMIT_TAG"
    # retags the image to the created tag:
    - docker tag $IMAGE_TAG_QA $NEW_IMAGE_TAG_QA
    - docker push $NEW_IMAGE_TAG_QA

I learned that the push to qa job is launched on another pipeline when I create a new tag, separate from the one where build qa was executed upon a new commit. So I get the following error:

$ docker load -i image/qa_latest.tar
open image/qa_latest.tar: no such file or directory

It isn’t able to access the artifact from the build stage. Does GitLab offer a free solution for this?