We performed a comparison between Akamai Edge DNS and Amazon Route 53 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Managed DNS."It is a very stable solution since it has a security feature that allows you to recover zone files if you accidentally delete them."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"The most valuable feature is that it works very well."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"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."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"When you add a new DNS record instructing the solution to map one thing to another, it has to propagate to all the networks, which takes some time."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"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 solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
Akamai Edge DNS is ranked 9th in Managed DNS with 1 review while Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews. Akamai Edge DNS is rated 9.0, while Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Edge DNS writes "A very stable solution with strong security features and an easy initial setup phase". On the other hand, 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". Akamai Edge DNS is most compared with IBM NS1 Connect, Cloudflare DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Google Cloud DNS and Quad9, whereas Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and Neustar UltraDNS.
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