--- title: AWS CodePipeline Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS CodePipeline Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 69 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS CodePipeline works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 69 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # AWS CodePipeline Reviews & Product Details AWS CodePipeline is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service that automates the build, test, and deployment phases of your release process. By modeling your software release workflow, CodePipeline enables rapid and reliable application and infrastructure updates. It integrates seamlessly with various AWS services and third-party tools, allowing you to create a streamlined and efficient pipeline tailored to your development needs. Key Features and Functionality: - Workflow Modeling: Define your release process with a series of stages (e.g., build, test, deploy) and actions, providing a clear visualization and management of your pipeline. - Parallel Execution: Increase workflow speed by configuring build, test, and deployment actions to run concurrently. - AWS Integrations: Connect with services like AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS Lambda to automate various stages of your release process. - Third-Party Tool Integration: Easily incorporate external tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, and others into your pipeline for source control, build, test, or deployment actions. - Custom Plugins: Integrate your own systems by registering custom actions, allowing for a tailored pipeline that meets specific requirements. - Declarative Templates: Define your pipeline structure using JSON documents, facilitating easy updates and creation of new pipelines. - Access Control: Manage permissions and control over your release workflow using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). - Notifications: Set up Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notifications for events impacting your pipelines, keeping your team informed of status changes. Primary Value and User Solutions: AWS CodePipeline addresses the need for efficient and reliable software release processes by automating the steps involved in building, testing, and deploying applications. This automation reduces manual intervention, minimizes errors, and accelerates the delivery of new features and updates. By integrating with a wide range of AWS services and third-party tools, CodePipeline offers a flexible and scalable solution that adapts to various development workflows. Ultimately, it empowers development teams to focus on innovation and quality, ensuring that applications are delivered to users swiftly and with confidence. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS CodePipeline Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-codepipeline/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 15 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-codepipeline/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Bamboo](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bamboo") Bamboo 4.1/5(69) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bamboo/reviews) [ ![Jenkins](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jenkins") Jenkins 4.4/5(573) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) [ ![CircleCI](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CircleCI") CircleCI 4.4/5(511) ](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-codepipeline/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 69 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## AWS CodePipeline Integrations (9) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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JR Jonathan R. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2018 "A good tool, but not the best" 3/5 What do you like best about AWS CodePipeline? You have a great level of control over how you setup your release pipeline. It's running on AWS tried and tested and ever improving infrastructure and is a fantastic tool if you're stack is primarily in AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CodePipeline? It is nothing "revolutionary" and doesn't really add anything new to the pipeline setups I had already in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CodePipeline: If you don't like the constant updating of services by 3rd parties (ie: things that can potentially break your build process) AWS has a good history of versioning and deprecating. This means that it will probably be in it for the long haul. However, if you're all about building into the future of the web I may recommend other 3rd party services as they're more mobile and have fantastic business intelligence features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CodePipeline solving and how is that benefiting you? I had several projects setup in various 3rd parties using dotfiles and had a nice pipeline for review and releases. When trying out the code pipeline for AWS it allowed me to set up exactly what I had in place before (which doesn't really incline me to switch since its a lot of work to switch and test). The primary benefit for using it is that it gives you the security of keeping everything on the AWS stack (especially if you're working with private VPCs or something of that sort). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/7/2018 "Not fully functional yet" 2.5/5 What do you like best about AWS CodePipeline? The set of advertised features and versatility was useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CodePipeline? It didn't allow me to connect to any GitHub repositories that belonged to organizations. It only allowed me to connect to my own personal repos, which really limited the utility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CodePipeline solving and how is that benefiting you? I wanted to configure CI testing for my organization's projects and also compile assets (i.e. JS, CSS) and upload them to S3 where they would then be served. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Zachary J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zachary J.") ZJ Zachary J. VP Engineering, Data & Platform Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/26/2016 "A good tool for complex build operations" 3/5 What do you like best about AWS CodePipeline? Codepipline is a bit under-rated, because most people don't have the need for such a programmable CD tool. Every facet of the build pipeline can be configured, and cans end notifier events via AWS SQS. When you're already doing much through AWS, it can reduce hassle to maintain all of your ops code in one place. I haven't seen other CD tools have this much programmability — and even where they may, I still hesitate at have too many things in too many disparate places. Also, CodePipeline as a full command-line interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CodePipeline? There really is nothing user-friendly about it, when you compare it to tools like CodeShip or Ansible. CodePipeline is a 'programmers tool' — and so it lacks the 'ease' of interacting with it, which other tools have. Consider that every functionality of CodePipeline has a command-line equivalent. When I've built things for smaller shops, it would be too much to hand-off to less-skilled engineers. This is also the case in medium-size companies, where there are enough smart people to do big things, but not enough of them to 'retune the engine regularly.' Even in a company with ~100 engineers, the ops group was small enough that CodePipeline was a bit much to setup and maintain with a complex build that involved a large tree of dependencies. In that particularly case, GoCD provided more up-front UI. It really comes down to what kind of people you have. As with most AWS products, support is costly or hard to come by (unless you in a city that has an AWS Loft) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS CodePipeline: Look at the rest of my comments; decide whether your company size and team capabilities are right for codepipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CodePipeline solving and how is that benefiting you? I've used, or attempted to use, CodePipeline in large and small companies. Large organizations with regulatory controls were where CodePipeline worked best for me, since every part of the system could be maintained in an orderly / regular manner. Also, consolidating billing with AWS simplified the POs and interaction with Finance. This ultimately lead to less time spent, organizationally, keeping proper financial controls and measure in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/6/2016 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") GH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/26/2016 "Only pay for what you use.... not a bad strategy!" 3/5 What do you like best about AWS CodePipeline? I appreciated that we only paid for what we used. And no commitment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CodePipeline? Custom plugins were a great addition but required a lot of trial and error Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CodePipeline solving and how is that benefiting you? Integration and staying up to date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Wireless](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Wireless") GW Verified User in Wireless Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/28/2016 "AWS Code Pipeline" 3/5 What do you like best about AWS CodePipeline? AWS Code pipeline is a Software as a Service, no worries with setup and configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS CodePipeline? AWS Code Pipeline is nice but it makes you lock-in AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS CodePipeline solving and how is that benefiting you? Automated the deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about AWS CodePipeline? 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