I am building my own app deployment platform where users can create a project by connecting to Github and then they can choose which repo they want to build and host using my platform. You can compare it with Vercel or Railway.

I want to use AWS under the hood to manage deployments and hosting.

So I read the docs for AWS CodeBuild SDK
And I thought that was exactly what I needed to build the projects of my customers.

But I came to a problem.
I don’t think you can create a CodeBuild project using github personal access tokens.
You can only do it by connecting your account via oauth in amazon console.

This is the code that I tried:

export async function buildProject(projectName: string, mainBranch: string) {
  const session = await auth();
  if (!session) {
    return;
  }

  try {
    const githubAccessToken = session.user?.accessToken;

    console.log(`https://${githubAccessToken}@github.com/${projectName}`);

    const codebuild = new CodeBuildClient({
      region: "us-west-1",
      credentials: {
        accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID!,
        secretAccessKey: process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY!,
      },
    });

    const params: CreateProjectInput = {
      // Create a unique project name
      serviceRole: "arn:aws:iam::051950967555:role/codebuild-dev",
      name: uuidv4(),
      sourceVersion: mainBranch,
      source: {
        type: "GITHUB",
        location: `https://github.com/${projectName}`,
        auth: {
          type: "PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN", // Type '"PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN"' is not assignable to type 'SourceAuthType | undefined'.
          resource: githubAccessToken,
        },
      },

      artifacts: {
        type: "NO_ARTIFACTS",
      },
      environment: {
        computeType: "BUILD_GENERAL1_SMALL",
        type: "LINUX_CONTAINER",
        image: "aws/codebuild/standard:4.0",
      },
    };

    const project = await codebuild.send(new CreateProjectCommand(params));

    return project;
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
    return false;
  }
}

So now I am wondering if i am even using the right service for this.
Should I use codebuild if I want to reploy apps for hundreds of user? or should I use codepipeline?

My original idea whas to do it via codebuild, install buildpacks and use it to generate a docker image and then host it on ECS

Thanks you in advance

I tried using using codebuild because I thought it was a good option for building all user repos, but maybe I need to use codepipeline or even provision my own EC2 instances? for building the source code