Powerful CI/CD for DevOps-centric teams
AWS Image Builder Plugin for TeamCity
Cloud build agents are one of those CI/CD features that feel almost magical when everything works well. Your TeamCity server can scale build capacity up when the queue gets busy, then wind it back down when the rush is over. You get extra power exactly when you need it, without keeping machines idle the rest of the time.
They also make builds cleaner and more predictable. Each cloud agent starts as a fresh VM from a cloud image, so every build gets an isolated environment rather than inheriting the state left behind by a previous build. Scalable, cost-efficient, and reliable, cloud build agents are a perfect fit for a truly robust and streamlined TeamCity setup.
Of course, cloud build agents are not without trade-offs. The most obvious one is maintenance. Agents are launched from a static machine image, and that image starts aging the moment your tooling changes or the TeamCity server is updated. Suddenly, every new agent has to spend valuable time catching up… or you have to repeat the familiar cycle: Start an instance, install updates, create a new snapshot, and update the TeamCity cloud profile.
