Assembla vs. AWS CodeArtifact

Assembla works well when you are working with multiple groups or entities. We dealt with different time zones, different levels of involvement with the projects, etc so this allows for us to have responses back in a quicker fashion. It also helps us clue in the appropriate people and rely less on following multiple email chains

Incentivized

We have a small team with limited resources and it worked well for us. Hence I can conclude that AWS Code Artifact are well suited for organizations which have limited resources in terms of hardware and access to administrators for setting up artifact repository in-house. AWS Code Artifact is also suited particularly well for organization(s) which are already using AWS Services/Infrastructure (eg. EC2) . It works quite well with existing AWS services and completes the gap which existed in AWS offering for quite some time. Organizations can move their entire DevOps toolchain and infrastructure to Amazon. It is less appropriate for organization(s) which rely on artifacts like Debian, C/C++, Go etc as AWS does not support those fully.

Incentivized

• Assembla assists in the workload balancing of our programmers.
• We are able to use Assembla to manage sprints and sprint planning in our agile format.

Incentivized

• Code Artifact is a cloud based artifact repository so there is no installation required.
• Code Artifact comes with out of the box security. Using RBAC and encryption
• Total cost of usage is less than setting up in-house servers
• It is accessible from any where.. so no additional network setup is required.

Incentivized

• The ability to export the tasks or run metrics on them.
• Mobile ability.

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• CodeArtifact does not support packages like debian. It will be nice to see them support that.
• Does not provide security scanning of the packages
• Lacks support for third party CI/CD toolchain like Jenkins

Incentivized

We selected Assembla because the ticket functionality worked well with our agile planning format that we use company wide.

Incentivized

AWS CodeArtifact is an excellent choice for organization(s) which are looking to move their infrastructure and devops toolchain to Amazon. It is very useful for teams/organizations on limited budget or do not want to take on infrastructure and maintenance costs associated with the artifact repository. Other software solutions require resources for setting up and need ongoing maintenance.

Incentivized

• We were able to spend less time tracking down the status of projects.
• We could become more self-sufficient on reviewing prior resolutions to help with current problems.
• Tasks were responded to quickly because we did not have to email one person, wait for an out of office email and then try someone else. Our task got assigned to the next available person.

Incentivized

• Overall CodeArtifact has positive ROI on the our team. We had limited budget for procurement of server/administrators. With CodeArtifact we were able to get some savings.
• We were able to deliver faster hence customers were quite happy. That led to customer satisfaction
• We didnt have to invest on maintaining network infrastructure/uptime and security. That saved us quite a bit of hassle and funds.

Incentivized