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AWS CodeBuild vs Codecov: What are the differences?

# Introduction
This Markdown code provides a comparison between AWS CodeBuild and Codecov outlining their key differences.

1. **Integration with AWS Services**: AWS CodeBuild is deeply integrated with various AWS services such as AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, and Amazon S3, providing a seamless development and deployment experience within the AWS ecosystem. On the other hand, Codecov is a third-party tool that can be used with any CI/CD platform, not limited to AWS services, making it more versatile for different development environments.

2. **Build Environment Management**: AWS CodeBuild manages the build environment, allowing developers to specify custom environments through Docker containers or use pre-configured environments provided by AWS. Codecov, on the other hand, focuses on code coverage reports and does not handle the build environment management, which is a task typically carried out by the CI/CD tool in use.

3. **Code Coverage Analysis**: A significant difference between AWS CodeBuild and Codecov is their primary focus. CodeBuild is mainly focused on building and testing applications while providing limited code coverage analysis capabilities. In contrast, Codecov specializes in producing detailed code coverage reports for tracking the effectiveness of the tests.

4. **Pricing Structure**: AWS CodeBuild follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you are charged based on the number of minutes your build runs and the compute resources required. Codecov, on the other hand, offers tiered pricing based on the number of repositories and users, which may be more beneficial for organizations with specific budget requirements.

5. **Collaboration and Notification Features**: Codecov comes with collaboration and notification features that allow team members to work together on improving code coverage, reviewing pull requests, and setting up alerts for code changes. AWS CodeBuild, being more focused on build automation, does not offer such extensive collaboration features out of the box.

6. **Community Support and Documentation**: Codecov has a strong community presence with active forums, detailed documentation, and continuous updates, making it easier for users to troubleshoot issues and find support. While AWS CodeBuild benefits from AWS's comprehensive support and documentation, the community aspect may not be as prominent for CodeBuild users.

In Summary, AWS CodeBuild and Codecov differ in their integration with AWS services, build environment management, focus on code coverage analysis, pricing structure, collaboration, and community support.

Decisions about AWS CodeBuild and Codecov

My website is brand new and one of the few requirements of testings I had to implement was code coverage. Never though it was so hard to implement using a #docker container. Given my lack of experience, every attempt I tried on making a simple code coverage test using the 4 combinations of #TravisCI, #CircleCi with #Coveralls, #Codecov I failed. The main problem was I was generating the .coverage file within the docker container and couldn't access it with #TravisCi or #CircleCi, every attempt to solve this problem seems to be very hacky and this was not the kind of complexity I want to introduce to my newborn website. This problem was solved using a specific action for #GitHubActions, it was a 3 line solution I had to put in my github workflow file and I was able to access the .coverage file from my docker container and get the coverage report with #Codecov.

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Pros of AWS CodeBuild
Pros of Codecov
  • 7
    Pay per minute
  • 5
    Parameter Store integration for passing secrets
  • 4
    Integrated with AWS
  • 3
    Streaming logs to Amazon CloudWatch
  • 3
    Bit bucket integration
  • 2
    GitHub Webhooks support
  • 2
    AWS Config and Config rule integration for compliance
  • 2
    VPC PrivateLinks to invoke service without internet
  • 1
    Windows/.NET support
  • 1
    Jenkins plugin integration
  • 1
    Ondemand scaling of build jobs
  • 1
    Scheduled builds with CloudWatch Events integration
  • 1
    Local build debug support
  • 1
    Native support for accessing Amazon VPC resources
  • 1
    Docker based build environment
  • 1
    Support for bringing custom Docker images
  • 1
    Fully managed (no installation/updates, servers to mai
  • 1
    PCI, SOC, ISO, HIPAA compliant
  • 1
    Full API/SDKs/CLI support
  • 1
    YAML based configuration
  • 1
    Great support (forums, premium support, SO, GitHub)
  • 1
    Perpetual free tier option (100 mins/month)
  • 1
    GitHub Enterprise support
  • 17
    More stable than coveralls
  • 17
    Easy setup
  • 14
    GitHub integration
  • 11
    They reply their users
  • 10
    Easy setup,great ui
  • 5
    Easily see per-commit coverage in GitHub
  • 5
    Steve is the man
  • 4
    Merges coverage from multiple CI jobs
  • 4
    Golang support
  • 3
    Free for public repositories
  • 3
    Code coverage
  • 3
    JSON in web hook
  • 3
    Newest Android SDK preinstalled
  • 2
    Cool diagrams
  • 1
    Bitbucket Integration

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Cons of AWS CodeBuild
Cons of Codecov
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    Poor branch support
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    GitHub org / team integration is a little too tight
  • 0
    Delayed results by hours since recent outage
  • 0
    Support does not respond to email

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What is AWS CodeBuild?

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build 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.

What is Codecov?

Our patrons rave about our elegant coverage reports, integrated pull request comments, interactive commit graphs, our Chrome plugin and security.

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What are some alternatives to AWS CodeBuild and Codecov?
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
AWS CodePipeline
CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.
Apache Maven
Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
GitLab CI
GitLab offers a continuous integration service. If you add a .gitlab-ci.yml file to the root directory of your repository, and configure your GitLab project to use a Runner, then each merge request or push triggers your CI pipeline.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
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