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 our build servers. Let’s investigate the features and benefits of this service in more detail now that we’re aware of its value proposition.