Introduction

Nowadays many developers experience improvement tools available in the market.

AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions both are awesome developer tools to run CI/CD workflows. In this article, we will take a look at the difference between AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions.

What is AWS CodePipeline?

AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates your release process's build, test, and deploy phases every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define.

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What is GitHub Actions?

Automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows right in your repository with GitHub Actions. You can discover, create, and share actions to perform any job you'd like, including CI/CD, and combine actions in a completely customized workflow.

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Comparison of GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline

Conclusion

GitHub Action gives a great developer experience and is easy to get started when your code is on GitHub. It also supports third-party integration & lots of community action is ready to use for different workflows. AWS CodePipeline is a bit complex comparatively for getting started but it gives more security and great integration within the AWS Ecosystem.

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  1. https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/
  2. https://docs.github.com/en/actions
  3. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/understanding-github-actions
  4. https://github.com/features/actions
  5. https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/pricing/