Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review Share codes and packages across the whole organization. We have developers most of the time work from home or overseas like in India. We can test and deploy the package when they deploy the new changes into the Azure Artifacts. Azure Artifact can promote our package to the correct system like DEV, UAT, or Production. It also provides retention policies to automatically clean up expired packages.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Security feature on share code efficiently. The built in CI/CD for the software pipeline. Support for most famous build tool like maven and npm. Read full review Cons 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 Read full review Native artifact format support like docker image Support for APL Support IAM permission Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Azure Artifact is based on GitHub which is the best artifact at all times.
Helm is open source and we may have security concerns.
Crucible is a good tool but does not of a lot of support. I prefer that Azure Artifact is a solid product and with a good gene from the GitHub codebase.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review The artifact provide best practice to our software development. Provide a standard way to release the software. The package is immutability which means no one can update it after release. Read full review ScreenShots