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: January 2025).

AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins

January 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

AWS CodeBuild

Ranking in Build Automation

12th

Average Rating

8.2

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

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild is 1.2%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 11.0%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

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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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Dinesh-Patil

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment

The dashboard needs to be improved. Though the access management and authentication functionalities are present, the dashboard and UI could be more user-friendly. The product has many plug-ins. Users have to go through the documentation to be able to use the product. The UI must be more user-friendly. The information should be available in the dashboard itself. The users shouldn’t have to refer to the documentation. When a user hovers over the elements on the dashboard, it should reveal information about them.

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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

"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."

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

"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 with other AWS services has streamlined our workflow."

"CodeBuild supports various platforms and coding."

"The solution provides good integrations."

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"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."

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source."

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

"The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful."

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

"Jenkins has excellent task planning features."

"Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable."

"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment."

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Cons

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"The documentation on plugin development could be better: more examples. "

"I sometimes face a bottleneck when installing the plugins on an offline machine. Mapping the dependencies and then installing the correct sequence of dependencies is a nightmare, and it took me two days to do it."

"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager)."

"We sometimes face challenges during version upgrades, such as failures when migrating Kubernetes versions."

"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

"In our company, we do pay for the licensing of the solution."

"It is free."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"It is a cheap solution."

"There is no cost. It is open source."

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

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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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Media Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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 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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