We compared GitLab and AWS CodePipeline based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, GitLab is praised for its pricing, version control capabilities, customer service, and project management features, while users suggest improvements in UI, speed, and code review. On the other hand, AWS CodePipeline stands out for its integration with AWS services, ease of use, and automation capabilities. Users appreciate its flexible pricing and excellent customer service but seek enhancements in flexibility, UI, integration, documentation, performance, error handling, and potentially pricing.
Features: In terms of valuable features, GitLab stands out with its robust version control capabilities, seamless collaboration tools, comprehensive issue tracking system, and strong integration with other development tools. On the other hand, AWS CodePipeline is highly appreciated for its seamless integration with other AWS services, ease of use and flexibility in setting up workflows, and excellent scalability and stability.
Pricing and ROI: GitLab's setup cost is reported to be easy and straightforward, offering flexible and convenient licensing options for individuals and businesses. On the other hand, AWS CodePipeline offers simplicity and ease of setup, with fair and transparent licensing terms that suit businesses of different sizes and budgets., GitLab users have reported positive ROI and satisfaction, emphasizing the platform's value and benefits. AWS CodePipeline users have highlighted its integration, automation, and error reduction capabilities, improving workflow efficiency and software quality.
Room for Improvement: GitLab's room for improvement lies in its user interface, navigation, performance, project management features, and code review process. AWS CodePipeline, on the other hand, can enhance its flexibility, user interface, integration capabilities, documentation, performance, error handling, and pricing models.
Deployment and customer support: The user feedback for GitLab indicates a range of timeframes for deployment and setup phases, with some users considering them separate and others considering them the same period. On the other hand, user experiences with AWS CodePipeline vary greatly, with some users requiring three months for deployment and others only a week. Setup times also vary., The customer service of both GitLab and AWS CodePipeline products has been highly praised by users. Users appreciate the prompt assistance and knowledgeable support team of both products. However, GitLab is known for consistently going above and beyond to resolve issues and address concerns, while AWS CodePipeline has been commended for its responsiveness and availability of customer service.
The summary above is based on 57 interviews we conducted recently with GitLab and AWS CodePipeline users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It's a perfect solution if you are just using AWS."
"The most valuable feature of AWS CodePipeline is the flexibility of the configuration."
"Code deployment is the best feature."
"AWS CodePipeline offers multiple integrations and it has its own set of features in the area of code scanning and dynamic code testing."
"The tool's recent version helps us to run pipelines in parallel. The integration with other AWS services has greatly impacted our use of AWS CodePipeline. It made tasks such as integrating with Jira and provisioning instances much easier."
"In AWS, the Cloud DevOps is a managed service from CodeCommit and this has removed the need for a lot of manual steps."
"AWS CodePipeline has valuable integration features."
"The product is cost-effective and integrates well with the AWS environment."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"It would be a much better tool if it could be made compatible with other cloud services as well since this is an area the product currently lacks."
"The support team’s response time must be improved."
"AWS CodePipeline doesn't offer much room for customization."
"There could be a possibility of deploying tag-based conditions for different environments using the same code base."
"In the next release, I would like to see fewer timeout errors."
"If you're talking about multi-cloud, you can't use it."
"The tool does not provide automated features for evidence collection."
"If there are many dependancies involved in the setup, it may take a long time."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
AWS CodePipeline is ranked 3rd in Build Automation with 13 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews. AWS CodePipeline is rated 8.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS CodePipeline writes "A fully managed service with excellent integrations and a flexible architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". AWS CodePipeline is most compared with AWS CodeStar, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Tekton and Bamboo, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, Tekton and TeamCity. See our AWS CodePipeline vs. GitLab report.
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