AWS CodeBuild vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between AWS CodeBuild and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins Report (Updated: December 2024).

AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins

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Categories and Ranking

AWS CodeBuild

Ranking in Build Automation

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 11.5%, down from 14.4% 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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AllenUmlas

Engineer at Etisalat

Streamlines the CI/CD process with its user-friendly interface, extensive plugin ecosystem and efficient automation capabilities

Jenkins is incredibly user-friendly, so I haven't encountered any difficulties using it. It's the only product I've used for automation, but I find it to be very intuitive and effective. Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes. We're leveraging Jenkins to automate tasks related to Telco, particularly in upgrading the manual orchestration. It's a critical tool for streamlining our operations.

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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

"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."

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

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

"The integration is a good feature."

"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 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."

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"I can install Jenkins for integration from multiple developers and automate application delivery, staging, and production environments."

"This is a great integration tool and very powerful."

"For business needs, Jenkins is the most relevant choice because it can be self-hosted, the price is good, it’s robust, and requires almost no effort for maintenance."

"We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."

"It's a powerful tool for CI/CD."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration between different tools."

"Jenkins is the most widely used development tool, so there are many plugins and it's easy to integrate. There is a large user base to provide community support, which I find very valuable. If I need to find a better way to do something, I can always get help from the community. Automation is about thinking outside of the box, and other users are constantly adding new plugins."

"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."

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Cons

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

"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."

"The deployment fails sometimes."

"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."

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

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

"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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"We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms."

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

"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."

"Sometimes you have Jenkins restarting because of OOM errors."

"The scriptwriting process could be improved in this solution in the future."

"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."

"For this solution to be a 10, it has to be a lot more stable. Maybe the public version of Jenkins is stable, but in our case it's not stable."

"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

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

"Jenkins is open source."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

"We use the tool's open-source version which is free. There is an enterprise version which is expensive but comes with better support."

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Comparison Review

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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Company Size

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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?

Regarding the pricing of CodeBuild, I cannot speak to the exact price.

What needs improvement with AWS CodeBuild?

I faced some challenges while using CodeBuild. I would like to see some improvements in certain limitations of the product.

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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.

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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AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins