AWS CodeBuild vs Bamboo comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Atlassian are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Atlassian is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.2% mindshare in BA, compared to Atlassian’s 7.4% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Atlassian users who would recommend it.

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77% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Bamboo and AWS CodeBuild are leading tools in the CI/CD pipeline category. AWS CodeBuild seems to have the upper hand due to its serverless architecture and strong cloud-native integrations.

Features: Bamboo offers seamless integration with Atlassian products like Jira and Bitbucket, provides a flexible setup for diverse build environments, and includes a robust suite of plugins. AWS CodeBuild integrates deeply with AWS services, supports serverless architecture, and manages multiple CI/CD pipelines with automatic scaling.

Room for Improvement: Bamboo faces challenges with plugin compatibility, a steep learning curve, and cumbersome manual configurations. AWS CodeBuild needs enhancements in its user interface and has occasional deployment failures. Both require better logging, notifications, and integration with external platforms.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bamboo supports on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments but requires infrastructure management, while AWS CodeBuild focuses on public cloud solutions and eliminates infrastructure concerns. Bamboo's community support is comprehensive, and AWS CodeBuild offers prompt technical assistance within the AWS ecosystem.

Pricing and ROI: Bamboo uses a pricing model based on remote agent usage, which can challenge scalability. AWS CodeBuild charges only for used compute resources, offering potential savings and scalability benefits. Both provide good ROI, yet AWS CodeBuild's serverless and pay-as-you-go model facilitates better cost management.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS CodeBuild

Ranking in Build Automation

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

6th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild is 1.2%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bamboo is 7.4%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty

Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini

Provides good integrations, is flexible, and has a comparable price

The product must provide more integrations. It is a replica of Jenkins. We have a management overhead. When I build artifacts stored outside the S3 bucket, it will have additional charges on the storage volumes. If we use S3 buckets regularly, it is fine. However, when we store somewhere else, it will be an issue. There is no persistent storage or preservation of workspace between the builds. We must fix the dependencies every time, even if the dependencies are the same. It is unnecessary.

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Andrea Carella

DevOps Engineer at Politecnico di Milano

High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available

I have used Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS for implementing Bamboo. It is not difficult to complete. The length of time it takes for deployment depends on a lot of variables, such as how the pipeline is deployed and what type of infrastructure is present. However, it typically takes only hours not days. I rate the setup of Bamboo a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"The solution provides good integrations."

"The integration with other AWS services has streamlined our workflow."

"CodeBuild supports various platforms and coding."

"The integration is a good feature."

"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."

"It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)."

"One of the main features I value in CodeBuild compared to previous experiences, like using Jenkins, is its ability to handle tasks automatically with AWS, requiring only proper setup of the check file."

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"In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."

"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."

"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."

"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."

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Cons

"There have been times when CodeBuild has shown some instability, like bugs or breakdowns."

"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."

"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."

"There is no persistent storage or preservation of workspace between the builds."

"We had integration issues with a tool called Octopus Deploy while using CodeBuild. AWS support helped us resolve it, however, it could be better."

"The front-end interface and the management are somewhat challenging, and there's a lot of space for improvement."

"While working on building images for multiple applications within a single script, I encountered an issue where looping functionality was not supported as expected."

"They can further improve the integration of the Bitbucket for CodeBuild."

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"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."

"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

"It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."

"Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited."

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Despite the cost, it is worth the investment."

"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."

"We pay a monthly licensing fee."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS CodeBuild?

It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS CodeBuild?

Regarding pricing, AWS services are quite expensive compared to open source tools like Git that are available for free.

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What needs improvement with AWS CodeBuild?

We had integration issues with a tool called Octopus Deploy while using CodeBuild. AWS support helped us resolve it, however, it could be better.

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What do you like most about Bamboo?

Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five.

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What needs improvement with Bamboo?

Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins we...

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Overview

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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Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

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