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."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"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."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"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."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"The product could improve its price."
"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."
"The platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
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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