We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Cisco Umbrella 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."Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"You can host your zone and name servers here, and keeping track of records is easy."
"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."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"Stability-wise, it's good. I have never encountered any bugs."
"The most valuable features for us include tenant lock, content filtering, and DLP solutions, looking for PII and information being exfiltrated."
"Any time someone went off the network, the AnyConnect client had the Umbrella agent built in, and it would realize when their computer connected that they were not on the corporate network. It would monitor and they would have pretty close to the same rules that they had to follow when they were in the office, regarding what kind of website browsing they could do."
"A single pane of glass saves time... This does have a lot of options available for us to see who's doing what, what trends, what errors. We can set up our alerting through it as well. It is definitely a great dashboard."
"The user interface is great. It's very easy to tailor to our client's environment and needs."
"You can manage and create policies based on a group of users. It can permit some URLs and block others."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes only a few minutes."
"It has excellent resilience in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity for my organization is very important because we are a banking organization. We need this security to protect the personal information of our clients. This is very important for our security."
"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 could be reduced."
"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 product could improve its price."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"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."
"I'd like to see improvement in its overall integration with all the other platforms. There's some integration between Umbrella and Meraki, but an overall Cisco problem is that there are so many different tools, and finding easy, seamless ways of connecting everything together is always a challenge."
"The product can be pretty expensive."
"It would be better if there was a little bit of flexibility for organizations that don't have SD One in their environment. Because of the complexity of the environment, it's not easy to actually turn on the feature of the secure internet gateway for our users. We have not been able to explore that option yet."
"The price could be better. The price is definitely a bit high, but we have to pay a premium for Cisco products."
"I would like to see more integrations with more products. Some of the integrations need to be simpler as well. For example, the integration with Cisco Secure Firewall could be simpler. It would be good to make reporting simpler. For those who don't use SecureX, it would be good to make Umbrella really simple to use upfront. It's not a difficult product, but it can be daunting for someone who isn't exposed to it because there are so many options."
"Its DNS service does not support IPv6 query."
"I would like for their support to be faster."
"The pricing could be improved."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Cisco Umbrella 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 Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Akamai Edge DNS and Neustar UltraDNS, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG.
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