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.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins Report (Updated: July 2025).

AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins

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Categories and Ranking

AWS CodeBuild

Ranking in Build Automation

8th

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

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 August 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild is 1.5%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 10.3%, down from 12.2% 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

"AWS CodeBuild reduces wait time and optimizes workflows."

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

"The integration is a good feature."

"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."

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

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

"The integration is a good feature."

"CodeBuild supports various platforms and coding."

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

"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 allows us to automate deployment, so I no longer have to do it manually. That's the primary use case. The other advantage of Jenkins is that it's open source. It was free for me to download and install. It's a product that's been in use for many years, so I can find a lot of support online for any issues that I may encounter while configuring anything for a given use case."

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

"Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, etc."

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

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

"We used it for all continuous integration parts, like automation testing, deployment, etc."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

"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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"The UI must be more user-friendly."

"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."

"Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."

"Jenkins could improve in areas related to Kubernetes and Docker container integration, like machine allocation of nodes and Marshaling integration improvements."

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

"UI is quite outdated."

"I would like to see even more integrations included in the next release."

"Performance-wise. This needs to be improved. Not only performance-wise, some functionality or some features can be added to Jenkins."

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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."

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

"Jenkins 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."

"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."

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

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

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

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

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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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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?

The cost structure is affordable for most builds except macOS servers. Standard builds can utilize AWS EC2 servers for background operations. However, macOS or iOS builds require physical servers m...

What needs improvement with AWS CodeBuild?

The servers used for macOS and iOS builds are limited in availability, operating only in US East 1 and East 2, and US West 1 and West 2. This geographical limitation causes latency issues and exten...

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When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very e...

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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