AWS CodeBuild Reviews & Product Details

The developer tools provide all the features required for the DevOps cycle. It has CodeCommit for source control, CodeBuild to build the artifacts required for the deployment, and CodeDeploy to deploy the artifacts to various AWS services.

All of this can be controlled in AWS CodePipeline, which makes it very easy to build and deploy the code.

We are using CodeBuild and CodePipeline regularly to deploy our workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CodeCommit is not very user-friendly when compared to other peers such as GitLab/BitBucket.

CodeBuild is good but lacks several capabillities when compared to GitLab CI, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS codebuild is a fully AWS managed build service. It is easy to use and supports various traditional build systems like Maven, Gradle etc. The compiling of code, Test case handling and Creation of packages are very well managed by AWS codebuild. To integrate with any runtime or package manager is a hasle free process with AWS codebuild. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A slight disadvantage is that AWS code build comes with AWS account or in other words AWS account is a prerequisite to use AWS codebuild service. However, the pricing is pay as you go model which will not incur any additional costs apart from the services which we consume. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Working with AWS Codebuild has been relatively easier in both implementation and integration than other CI CD services available on AWS and has some useful features

--> It has support to integrate with SNS for code build notification with build stopped or failed can be notified over email and easily can be done also for code can be integrated with code repo at GitHub

--> Great to troubleshoot as cloud watch logs integrated with AWS Codebuild

--> IAM integration helps with access and security concerns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When working with AWS Codebuild or any AWS service optimizing cost is a major concern. One of the other concerns is when doing the first-time setup it might over overwhelming to do it on your own. Might video tutorials instead of documentation be more helpful for the setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are quite a few things that are fascinating about AWS CodeBuild:

1) It has the functionality to customise multiple build environments.

2) Support for traditional docker builds is provided alongside regular builds.

3) The pricing model can be selected as per the usage scenario. One can opt for a pay-as-you-go model as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few areas that can be worked upon:

1) The interface is a bit shabby and not visually appealing.

2) The interface lags at times while running multiple builds.

3) One can experience higher pricing if their builds take more time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of setting up the pipelines and triggers. Also it took away the pain of setting up and managing the build infrastructure. Provides integration with almost all the version control systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing as of now that is unlikeable about it, looking for more feature related to automating infrastructure creation for testing the application. The integration with other clouds for building infrastructure can be a good plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has all the features needed to build my apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI could be more intuitive for some configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I like the most is that the services are fully managed, and they take care of the infrastructure, updates, maintenance and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has only limited build environment customisation and it takes more time to build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Codebuild have different steps customization that can be reordered or minimized for during deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Codebuild requires OS to be selected and recently with nodejs 14 linux old OS was not supported and required alot of modification before build execution to update required libraries to run before nodejs 14. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS codebuild is very user friendly for integration in production applications. We can configure multiple steps in the codebuild for setup phases of the application and check the status and logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, the logs are not very clear after the failure of any phase. Deployments happening on large number of ECS services are not parallel so it takes a long time to deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Fully managed service backed by AWS infrastructure

2. Easy integration with CodePipeline

3. Supports both docker and normal builds

4. Works as an on-demand or pay-as-you-go model

5. Uses service roles to maintain the security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. UI is very outdated and confusing

2. I found it very slow as compared to running custom runners (EC2) in GitLab

3. Same build environment can't be used for multiple pipelines unless the YAML file name is the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.