Should you choose Open Source or AWS Services for AWS WellArchitected CICD capabilities

The enormous spread of services available to AWS gives them the freedom to adopt open-source tools on AWS services, implement AWS services or choose a combination of the two.

To understand the advantages and disadvantages of each, this article evaluates the choices using Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery as the objective of the (hypothetical) organization. And we do this from two perspectives: an SME and a large mature enterprise.



The reason we have selected CI-CD as the focus of our investigation is that this is the conduit that fastest delivers every new development you make to your customers. And any investment provides returns only when it is in the hands of your customer. Thus, speed is of the essence. And CI-CD’s ability to quickly and consistently deliver value by helping the organization identify risks, resolve them, and avoid manual errors in this manner supports development, testing, and deployment for a variety of actions, such as making updates to an application, changing multi-media assets or changing Machine Learning models.

In other words, it frees you from related manual processes, so you can focus on core business objectives, e.g. meeting customer needs, differentiating the organization, and bringing critical changes into production.