Why Jenkins might cost you 10x more than Bitbucket Pipelines
Any company still running their own CI/CD, such as Jenkins, is paying a price. The question is which one: Each of these is extremely costly, and yet many software teams still host and run their own CI/CD for two reasons: tools like Jenkins are cheap or free, and hosting Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance is often cheaper per minute than SaaS CI/CD services like Bitbucket Pipelines. Both reasons are true, but they’re also a trap.