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 Whenever your projects need some packages which are available on NuGet it is easy to consume them with the help of tools such as Visual Studio, and MSBuild. We can add customized functionality to existing packages and can host them as a separate packages easily. Packages that depend on other packages are well managed by NuGet.
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 The built-in package explorer / manager in Visual Studio work reliably Integration with popular web-based repository manager is good Command-line options are enough even for complex use cases like publishing to private, credentials-protected repositories 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 Incomplete download resume in case of network disruptions Adding user friendly platform to add and update the packages Package creation option in Visual Studio 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 Not really have a choice here, especially when working with .NET Framework / .NET Core. At least the built-in GUI of NuGet helps beginners get up to speed quickly. However, advanced users would be able to be more productive with
Maven / Ivy thanks to the complete text-based format. Basically, people from the Java world are spoiled by a much better dependency management system.
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 Saves a rework by sharing the common functionalities across the projects Helped to optimize the given package using a central repository Helped to make use of existing useful packages Read full review ScreenShots