AWS CodeBuild vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Jenkins and AWS CodeBuild are prominent players in the CI/CD space. While Jenkins offers extensive customization and flexibility through its open-source nature, AWS CodeBuild gains an edge with seamless AWS service integration and effortless scalability.

Features: Jenkins provides a robust ecosystem with extensive plugin support, including Jenkins Pipelines, which allows for high pipeline customization, and programmable pipelines for process automation. AWS CodeBuild offers native integration with AWS services, serverless architecture that enhances elasticity and reliability, and seamless integration with third-party tools such as GitHub, facilitating ease of use within AWS environments.

Room for Improvement: Jenkins could enhance its installation process across different platforms, address plugin management issues, and update its interface for a better user experience. AWS CodeBuild may improve by strengthening integration with external storage solutions, enhancing loop functionality within scripts, and developing a more intuitive user interface along with improved build notification features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins supports on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments, but lacks formal customer service, relying on community support. AWS CodeBuild focuses on managed public cloud deployment, reducing infrastructure concerns for AWS users and offering AWS support that minimizes the need for community reliance.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins is an open-source tool with no license fees, making it highly cost-effective for organizations seeking community support. AWS CodeBuild's pay-as-you-go pricing based on compute resources provides financial flexibility, though it may be more expensive than Jenkins. Jenkins could lead to substantial cost savings in large deployments, while AWS CodeBuild offers competitive pricing and reasonable ROI, especially for projects already integrated into AWS.

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AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins

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Categories and Ranking

AWS CodeBuild

Ranking in Build Automation

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild is 1.3%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 10.5%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

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Mahadev Metre

DevOps Engineer at Paydoh

Integration with diverse environments boosts productivity and automation

AWS CodeBuild's support for a wide range of programming languages and build environments benefits development teams significantly in terms of productivity and ease of use. There are extensive libraries of code structures available, making it a universal pipeline. All programming languages I have worked with are supported in AWS CodeBuild, eliminating the need for alternative deployment services. The service supports iOS builds, Kotlin, Java, NodeJS, and ReactJS. AWS has made it accessible to all languages, allowing developers to simply open the console and trigger builds. AWS manages all the background server operations for building or deploying code. For standard builds such as ReactJS or Java, a Linux or Ubuntu server suffices. AWS provides its own operating system for these purposes. For builds requiring physical servers, such as Apple macOS server, AWS rents Mac minis specifically for iOS and SwiftUI builds. While this incurs higher charges, it demonstrates AWS's commitment to providing comprehensive solutions for all use cases.

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Annamalai Pts

DevOps Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

Streamlined CI/CD pipelines with powerful integration and an easy setup

I use Jenkins as a CI/CD tool. We create pipelines using Jenkins, with stages for Maven builds, Docker image builds, SonarQube integration, and deploying the image to a Kubernetes cluster, AWS EKS Jenkins has made the developers' work very easy. They commit to the remote repository, and…

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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

"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."

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

"CodeBuild supports various platforms and coding."

"AWS CodeBuild reduces wait time and optimizes workflows."

"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."

"A valuable feature is the support for third-party repositories such as Bitbucket, GitLab, or GitHub."

"The integration is a good feature."

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"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."

"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."

"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features. We can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."

"The solution is scalable and has a large number of plugins that can help you scale it to your needs."

"It can scale easily."

"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."

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Cons

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

"The deployment fails sometimes."

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

"Multiple clients have faced issues with pricing. After migrating from Azure to EC2, they were unexpectedly charged 100,000 rupees because the pricing details were not clearly visible."

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

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

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

"One of the main challenges is that if the environment is not set up properly, it will result in issues such as image errors."

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"The solution's UI can use a facelift and the logs can use more detailed information."

"Tasks such as deployment, cloning, database switchover, and all other database missions and tasks are being done through Jenkins. If a job does not go through, at times the error message does not clearly indicate what caused the failure. I have to escalate it to the Jenkins DevOps team just to see what caused the failure. If the error message is clear, then I wouldn't have to escalate the issue to different teams."

"Jenkins takes a long time to create archive files."

"Jenkins can improve by continuing to add additional plugins for all the new solutions that are coming out within the cloud sphere."

"I would like them to provide space for people to have a central node that stores all the logs of workspace information in a distributed fashion to facilitate backup and restoration. Currently, everything is stored on one node, so you need to set up distributed storage or an endpoint that you can use for backing up your information."

"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."

"It would be helpful if they had a bit more interactive UI."

"Jenkins can sometimes run slow, especially when restarting after a plugin installation or when returning from a pipeline view to the dashboard."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay a monthly licensing fee."

"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 are using the free version of Jenkins. There is not a license required to use the solution because it is open-source."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

"The solution is one of the lowest costs compared to competitors."

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

"Jenkins is a free solution, it is open source."

"It is a free product."

"The solution is open source."

"Jenkins is open-source, so it is free."

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it_user184734

Systems Administrator at Facebook

Jan 22, 2015

I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins.

Moving to TeamCity from Jenkins At work, we’re slowly migrating from Jenkins to TeamCity in the hope of ending some of our recurring problems with continuous integration. My use of Jenkins prior to this job has been almost strictly on a personal basis, although I pretty much only use Travis…

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Manufacturing Company

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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).

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

Issues with pricing have been mentioned, especially for new clients who might not realize the cost implications initially, such as leaving servers on for too long and incurring unexpectedly high bi...

What needs improvement with AWS CodeBuild?

There is room for improvement in making AWS CodeBuild available on Windows servers in the Mumbai region. Multiple clients have faced issues with pricing. After migrating from Azure ( /products/micr...

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What do you like most about Jenkins?

Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?

Jenkins is used in many companies to save money, especially within R&D divisions, by avoiding the expenses of proprietary tools.

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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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Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

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