An AWS Partner Weighs In On The Open Source Vs AWS Services Debate

As AWS Cloud Consultants, Teleglobal’s AWS Cloud Consulting Services Team is often confronted with questions from clients about whether they should go with Open Source or AWS Services for setting up certain capabilities. And from our experience as AWS Cloud Service Providers, we have to reluctantly demur from giving a definitive answer because, in truth, it depends on a number of considerations.

Since CI-CD has become the primary tool for value delivery, we decided to look at this common query from that point of view. One doesn’t need to be an AWS Partner or AWS Cloud Consultant to know that AWS provides a massive breadth and depth of services that comprise both open source tools and AWS services, and users are free to choose either or a combination of both, as they desire. To understand which approach works best, and in which environment, this article takes a look at the adoption of CI-CD from the PoV of two of the most common organization sizes: SMEs and large enterprises. Read on to see what our AWS cloud service experts have to say.