CodeBuild Provisioning Speed Dramatically Faster Lately?

Question

I've noticed CodeBuild provisioning times have gotten much faster recently, often only taking a few seconds from when I trigger a build to it starting up.

It used to take much longer in the past, so I'm wondering if AWS has made some improvements to optimize the provisioning speed? If so, are these faster spin up times something I can expect going forward? Just wanted to check if this is an ongoing improvement I can rely on with CodeBuild. Appreciate any insight!

Answer

Hey there! As someone on the CodeBuild team. I'm glad to hear you've noticed improved provisioning speed and performance lately. You can expect these fast provisioning times to be the norm going forward - just a few seconds when using one of our curated images. Fast and performant provisioning will continue a priority for us.

Notice that more advanced features like VPC builds or using custom images would incur higher latency. For extremely latency-sensitive workloads, I'd also recommend checking out our newly launched Lambda and Reserved Capacity capabilities. While not one-size-fits-all solutions, they can be great options for certain use cases if you're willing to work within their limitations.

1. Lambda: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/lambda.html
2. reserved capacity: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/fleets.html

CodeBuild Provisioning Speed Dramatically Faster Lately?

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