AWS CodePipeline vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline are competitive solutions in the CI/CD category. Based on the comparison, Jenkins shows more adaptability due to its plugin versatility and open-source nature, while AWS CodePipeline offers streamlined integration within AWS services.

Features: Jenkins stands out with its extensive plugin ecosystem, providing an adaptable and customizable pipeline environment suitable for diverse CI/CD setups. It offers open-source flexibility and robust integration capabilities, benefiting from strong community support. AWS CodePipeline, on the other hand, is optimized for AWS environments, offering seamless integration with AWS services and a scalable cloud-native solution. Its integration features are complemented by tools like CodeBuild and CodeDeploy, which simplify complex deployments.

Room for Improvement: Jenkins could improve in areas like UI polish, plugin stability, and easing setup complexities, especially for cloud integrations. Enhancing documentation, centralized management, and cloud-native features are also necessary. AWS CodePipeline would benefit from expanding multi-cloud compatibility, real-time pipeline analytics, and broadening built-in integrations beyond the AWS ecosystem, requiring more flexibility to meet diverse customization needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins offers flexibility with on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud deployments, suitable for various architectural demands, but relies on community support for technical assistance without formal customer service. AWS CodePipeline focuses on public cloud environments within the AWS infrastructure, facilitating integrated support with a subscription model while lacking Jenkins's deployment versatility.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins, being open-source, provides substantial cost savings with no licensing fees, attracting cost-conscious organizations seeking high ROI through automation and efficiency improvements. AWS CodePipeline operates on a pay-as-you-go model, offering transparent and controlled expenses tied to AWS service usage, which scales costs with pipeline activity and suits cloud-native deployments but may increase costs for extensive builds.

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AWS CodePipeline vs. Jenkins

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Categories and Ranking

AWS CodePipeline

Ranking in Build Automation

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodePipeline is 3.6%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 8.4%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	8.4%
AWS CodePipeline	3.6%
Other	88.0%

Build Automation

Featured Reviews

Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty

Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini

A fully managed service with excellent integrations and a flexible architecture

Compared to any other tools, AWS products provide better integrations. We have tools for all our needs. The integrations are good. The product is a fully managed service. We specify the various stages in the CI/CD process. We can do it without any external tools. Going through everything is usually an overhead for developers. It is like a configuration. We need to configure it only once. The integration with other AWS services has helped us. Our life as a developer is easy. We need not focus on the integration manually. If we work with third-party tools, we must consider connectivity, role management, security, authentication, and authorization. In AWS CodePipeline, if we have IAM roles configured and KMS for the credentials, we need not worry about anything else. Everything can be done within the tool. The integrations are the best part. We can track everything. The connectivity and scalability are good. The architecture is also flexible enough. We can add multiple things.

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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

"In AWS, the Cloud DevOps is a managed service from CodeCommit and this has removed the need for a lot of manual steps."

"Another big advantage is observability."

"It's a perfect solution if you are just using AWS."

"Code deployment is the best feature."

"The notification and approval approach in the production environment are very useful."

"The best thing about AWS CodePipeline is that we don't have to manage agents."

"AWS CodePipeline's most valuable feature is its seamless integration with other AWS services, making it easier to orchestrate deployment processes."

"CodePipeline allows integration with any source code and facilitates deployment to EC2 or ECS, which is highly valuable."

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"The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline."

"It can scale easily."

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Cons

"From my perspective, some in-built capabilities could be enhanced."

"While CodePipeline's UI has improved, further enhancements in user experience are necessary to make it more intuitive."

"The support team’s response time must be improved."

"It would be a much better tool if it could be made compatible with other cloud services as well since this is an area the product currently lacks."

"If there are many dependancies involved in the setup, it may take a long time."

"I would appreciate if we don't have to install any agents, even for EC2, to deploy using CodeDeploy into EC2 servers. It would help if AWS allows application deployment without requiring the Fortify agent installation."

"Improved enhancements and features could make it more intuitive."

"The migration process from one source code to another needs improvement."

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"Centralized user management would be helpful."

"The upgrades need improvement."

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

"The major drawback with Jenkins is the lack of support."

"The UI of Jenkins could improve."

"Jenkins should adopt the Pipeline as Code approach by building a deployment pipeline using the Jenkins file."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to other cloud services, AWS CodePipeline falls a bit more on the pricey side. I see that the price of the product has been increasing for the past few years."

"It is a straightforward approach where you pay for the resources you consume as they offer a subscription-based licensing model."

"The price of the product depends on how many times you run it. The tool offers a pay-as-you-go model."

"The pricing of this solution is dependent upon your needs including how many jobs you daily and how many times the developer will be changing codes and completing deployments."

"The pricing is manageable."

"AWS charges you based on the number of pipelines you have and how active they are, and I also think that the root account user knows about all the price-related metrics."

"AWS offers free business or enterprise support services."

"The product is quite expensive compared to other solutions."

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

"We are using the free version of Jenkins. There are no costs or licensing."

"The solution is open source."

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

"It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."

"The tool is open-source."

"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."

"It is a free product."

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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

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	7

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Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	56

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What do you like most about AWS CodePipeline?

Code deployment is the best feature.

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Overview

AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define. This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features and updates. You can easily integrate AWS CodePipeline with third-party services such as GitHub or with your own custom plugin. With AWS CodePipeline, you only pay for what you use. There are no upfront fees or long-term commitments.

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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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