Benefits and Features of AWS CodeBuild

Consider a development team of ten developers. One of the criteria put forth by the team lead is to check in changes regularly. If each build takes a while to complete, it’s normal for the build queue to back up.

Typical build environment vs. AWS CodeBuild

The developers might have to wait a long time for their build to be picked up, which can quickly act as a bottleneck to a team working aggressively to deliver new features to meet customer demands. So, the team needs a build environment that quickly scales up to meet the developers’ needs and scales down quickly when there are no new builds to save the infrastructure cost. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service designed to solve this problem and can be used to build and test code with elastic scaling. Since this is a managed service, we don’t need to explicitly set up and manage ...