We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Quad9 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."We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"The initial setup is good and straightforward."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Route 53 would be better if it had the ability to handle multiple requests at the same time because we have a lot of users. I would like that to be optimized in the next version."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"It may not always be easy to integrate with on-premise infrastructure, especially with the complexity of the resolver and other factors involved. Improvements could be made to enhance the ability to integrate seamlessly."
"The platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 4th in Managed DNS with 2 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. 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 Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and BlueCat Integrity, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Verisign Public DNS and Akamai Edge DNS. See our Amazon Route 53 vs. Quad9 report.
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