AWS CodeBuild vs Bamboo comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Atlassian are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2, while Atlassian is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.5% mindshare in BA, compared to Atlassian’s 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Atlassian users who would recommend it.

AWS CodeBuild

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Bamboo and AWS CodeBuild are leading tools in the CI/CD pipeline category. AWS CodeBuild seems to have the upper hand due to its serverless architecture and strong cloud-native integrations.

Features: Bamboo offers seamless integration with Atlassian products like Jira and Bitbucket, provides a flexible setup for diverse build environments, and includes a robust suite of plugins. AWS CodeBuild integrates deeply with AWS services, supports serverless architecture, and manages multiple CI/CD pipelines with automatic scaling.

Room for Improvement: Bamboo faces challenges with plugin compatibility, a steep learning curve, and cumbersome manual configurations. AWS CodeBuild needs enhancements in its user interface and has occasional deployment failures. Both require better logging, notifications, and integration with external platforms.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bamboo supports on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments but requires infrastructure management, while AWS CodeBuild focuses on public cloud solutions and eliminates infrastructure concerns. Bamboo's community support is comprehensive, and AWS CodeBuild offers prompt technical assistance within the AWS ecosystem.

Pricing and ROI: Bamboo uses a pricing model based on remote agent usage, which can challenge scalability. AWS CodeBuild charges only for used compute resources, offering potential savings and scalability benefits. Both provide good ROI, yet AWS CodeBuild's serverless and pay-as-you-go model facilitates better cost management.

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Review summaries and opinions

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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

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

7th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

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 Bamboo is 6.0%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Cuneyt-Gurses

Director of Cloud Solution Group at DTech Cloud Corporation

Useful for continuous deployment, but the stability must be improved

The setup is moderately difficult. It is not highly complicated, but it is not easy. We must go through some steps to complete the implementation. Once the product is implemented, it will be stable. We face some challenges since the tool is deployed on-premise. The capabilities are adequate for our needs, though.

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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."

"The solution provides good integrations."

"The initial setup of CodeBuild is easy."

"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."

"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."

"CodeBuild supports various platforms and coding."

"The integration is a good feature."

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"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."

"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."

"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

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Cons

"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."

"They can further improve the integration of the Bitbucket for CodeBuild."

"We had integration issues with a tool called Octopus Deploy while using CodeBuild. AWS support helped us resolve it, however, it could be better."

"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."

"The deployment fails sometimes."

"There have been times when CodeBuild has shown some instability, like bugs or breakdowns."

"While working on building images for multiple applications within a single script, I encountered an issue where looping functionality was not supported as expected."

"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."

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"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."

"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."

"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."

"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."

"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."

"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Despite the cost, it is worth the investment."

"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."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Media Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

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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).

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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...

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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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What do you like most about Bamboo?

Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five.

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What needs improvement with Bamboo?

Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins we...

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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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Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

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