AWS CodeBuild Reviews

Name: AWS CodeBuild
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.3 (7 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

7 reviews
85% willing to recommend

What is AWS CodeBuild?

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. With CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use.

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AWS CodeBuild is the #9 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS CodeBuild an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. AWS CodeBuild is most commonly compared to GitLab: AWS CodeBuild vs GitLab. AWS CodeBuild is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 26% of all views.

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November 2024

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Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty

Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini

I use the solution for continuous integration The integration of the product with our ecosystem is very good. X-Ray and CloudWatch metrics are already integrated. If anything happens, we can see everything immediately. If it were Jenkins, we would have needed an instance to run it and a server to…

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Stepan Raichl

AWS Competency Lead at trask

We have it on various client projects and we rarely use it individually. It forms part of an entire pipeline committed in CodeCommit along with all the customers' code. Then, it's picked up by CodeBuild in the pipeline to build the site, update the sites, and update the services with CloudFormation…

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NabeelHassan

AWS Trainer at National Vocational and Technical Training Commission

A normal use case for CodeBuild is to use it with the code pipeline for proper CI/CD. Normally, it's used to make a CI/CD pipeline A valuable feature is the support for third-party repositories such as Bitbucket, GitLab, or GitHub. Another valuable feature is the logging feature, which saves all…

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AWS CodeBuild mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild in the Build Automation category stands at 1.4%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The most important thing is that it's self-contained in an AWS account, and it's all linked to the customer's AWS account."
"A valuable feature is the support for third-party repositories such as Bitbucket, GitLab, or GitHub."
"The tool is used to build and test code. I find its biggest advantages are elasticity and reliability. We can easily assign as many computing resources as needed to build our code, which is much simpler than traditional methods that require server upgrades. It's a serverless tool, so it's very flexible and elastic."

Room for Improvement

"The front-end interface and the management are somewhat challenging, and there's a lot of space for improvement."
"Notifications could be added, or SNS integration could be included so that notifications can be received on every build, whether the build fails or succeeds."
"For improvement, I'd suggest more build instance-type options. There's a big jump from 15 gigabytes of RAM to 150, and I'd like something in between as the larger option is too expensive for our needs."

Pricing

"AWS CodeBuild is free. We only pay for our code's compute resources during the build process. For example, if our code takes ten minutes to build, we only pay for those ten minutes of computing time. CodeDeploy and CodePipeline are free because they're serverless and don't require computing resources. CodeCommit has minimal costs for storing code."
"Despite the cost, it is worth the investment."
"We pay a monthly licensing fee."

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