GitHub Actions versus AWS CodePipeline
Learn how GitHub Actions differs from AWS CodePipeline.
| GitHub Actions | AWS CodePipeline | |
|---|---|---|
| Free Tier (Linux) | free for public repositories | 50 minutes per month |
| Costs for Pipeline | free | $1.00 per month |
| Costs for Build Job | $0.008 per minute | $0.010 per minute |
| Environments | Linux, Windows, macOS | Linux, (Windows) |
| Source Code Repository | GitHub | GitHub, Bitbucket, AWS CodeCommit, Amazon S3 |
| Deployment Target | Any environment, works best for public cloud providers. | Mainly AWS, in theory you could deploy to other cloud providers as well. |
| AWS Authentication | Store access keys of IAM user in GitHub Secrets | IAM role, no need to manage access keys |
| Developer Experience | 🏖 Easy to use | 🤷♀️ Difficult to get started |
| Integrations | Open marketplace providing all kinds of integrations of mixed quality. | Pre-built and high quality integrations into the AWS ecosystem. |
| Self-hosted Workers? | ✅ | ⚠️ with custom actions and custom code |
| Serialize pipeline executions | ✅ | ✅ |
| Support for multiple branches? | ✅ | ❌ |
| Pipeline as Code | ✅ | ⚠️ with custom CloudFormation or Terraform and CodeBuild action |