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: September 2025).

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

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 October 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of AWS CodeBuild is 1.7%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 9.1%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	9.1%
AWS CodeBuild	1.7%
Other	89.2%

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

"CodeBuild supports various platforms and coding."

"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."

"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 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."

"The solution provides good integrations."

"AWS CodeBuild reduces wait time and optimizes workflows."

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

"The integration is a good feature."

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"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."

"It offers continuous deployment and continuous testing. It enables us to figure out anything."

"Jenkins is a CI/CD tool and is the most robust tool."

"Jenkins is very customizable."

"Jenkins is very user-friendly."

"Jenkins optimizes the CI/CD process, enhances automation, and ensures efficiency and management of our build and deployment pipeline."

"Jenkins is free and open source."

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

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Cons

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

"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."

"The deployment fails sometimes."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The upgrades need improvement."

"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."

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

"Jenkins can be improved, but it's difficult for me to explain. The initial setup could be more straightforward. If you connect Jenkins with bookings and lockouts, it can be challenging."

"The learning curve is quite steep at the moment."

"Creating a new SonarQube project requires a separate job, and we've encountered some integration issues with Docker and the need for better vulnerability checks."

"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."

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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."

"Jenkins is open source."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"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."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"Some of the add-ons are too expensive."

"The tool is open-source."

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

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

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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

17%

Media Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	56

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...

How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?

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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