We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and BlueCat Integrity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Managed DNS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The initial setup is good and straightforward."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"The product integrates with other services from AWS, like Amazon S3 bucket and load balancers. The product can also be used with AWS EC2 Instances, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"Using Amazon Route 53 is located in a central place in Amazon AWS which makes it easier to manage every DNS entry in one place. You are able to manage your public and private DNS from there. We can create rules based on weight and globalization is impressive."
"The most significant advantage of BlueCat is its foundation on open-source software, specifically BIND and ISC DHCP."
"It's a critical infrastructure piece. This is where all the IPs are named for the whole organization. It's a big deal. It has all the features related to DNS and DHCP. It's pretty amazing."
"This inherent stability, derived from its Linux-based architecture, provides a well-established and reliable platform."
"One of the better things about Integrity is that the underlying code it uses is an ISC DNS and DHCP. It's not like some of the other vendors that have created their own version of DNS."
"DNS aliases, which we use extensively in our applications are a valuable feature."
"The most valuable piece, which has been a lifesaver, would be the BlueCat DNS resolver. BlueCat Cloud DNS resolver is a tool that takes a look into your cloud's DNS and then reports back everything it finds into BlueCat's DNS Edge solution. The Edge solution has a bunch of nice rules that you can configure to route the DNS traffic. That automation alone is a lifesaver for me for the day-to-day churn of the DNS components that change on an hourly, daily basis."
"BlueCat Integrity provides us with flexibility and visibility that we did not have before."
"Since implementing BlueCat, we have experienced fewer problems, anomalies, and strange issues."
"Streamlining and optimizing processes related to Procter, VPN workflows, and other subjects based on specific needs would allow for continual improvement and adaptation to the evolving requirements of the system."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"The platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"When we are looking at the model registry, it may be not clear sometimes. For example, if you use a single grid model and group or registry, it has a different SDK in the pilot. And it may be not so comfortable to use both of them because it is two different places for keeping things in order."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The product’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"During our testing phase, we encountered some issues with Active Directory and DNS reverse lookups."
"I would like the GUI to be similar to AWS and Azure, where we can simply click on an item to expand it and see all the information on one page, without having to click to the next page."
"While knowledge is a factor, both technical support and training need a significant overhaul."
"The technical support is slow and has room for improvement."
"Adaptive DNS only supports AWS for network automation and cloud computing and would be improved if it also supported other options like Azure or Google Cloud."
"While the product is IPAM, DNS, and DHCP, it does provide NTP functionality, but one of the things that they have yet to correct or catch up with is NTP authentication. There are new standards being pushed out and they are lagging a little bit in supporting them."
"When you replace an appliance, there are many configuration steps, so adding zero-touch provisioning would be helpful. It can be quite tedious and time-consuming to replace a device if it fails or deploy a new one."
"The UI is outdated and needs a modern refresh."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while BlueCat Integrity is ranked 5th in Managed DNS with 18 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while BlueCat Integrity is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Route 53 writes "Provides clear documentation, easy to understand, simplifies management and efficiently handles our domain-related configurations and DNS records". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BlueCat Integrity writes "It improves our security by providing a single source of IP address usage and contact information". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS and Cisco Umbrella, whereas BlueCat Integrity is most compared with Infoblox DDI, Infoblox IPAM, SolarWinds IPAM, Cloudflare DNS and Micetro. See our Amazon Route 53 vs. BlueCat Integrity report.
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