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."The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"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 scalability is the most valuable feature."
"It stands out for its user-friendly interface, seamless integration with other AWS services, and ability to efficiently manage DNS, making it a valuable tool for various deployment scenarios, including those involving Kubernetes on AWS."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"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 multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"The product should improve its automation."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"The product could improve its price."
"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 Dyn, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Verisign Public DNS and Zscaler Internet Access. See our Amazon Route 53 vs. Quad9 report.
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