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."The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"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."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"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 is the ability to filter malware sites that could infect clients or allow them to download infected files."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Web Filtering and the APT."
"Overall, it is a very good solution. It is a simple solution and very easy to set up."
"The implementation is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it secures our network against blacklisted or malicious websites."
"I think recently with many people working from home, Cisco Umbrella has been very useful. For example, we can manage the device and the network when the employee is not working on the local host. Cisco Umbrella is very valuable for this kind of infrastructure."
"It makes it really easy to accomplish content filtering. We don't have to do a lot of customization. You just click the box for the content category and it's up to date."
"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."
"Streamlining and optimizing processes related to Procter, VPN workflows, and other subjects based on specific needs would allow for continual improvement and adaptation to the evolving requirements of the system."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"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 product should improve its automation."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"It had the ability to do a lot of app control. So, every single app that went through that portal was registered, but there is a general issue with the whole app control. As soon as you add a mobile phone to your network, all of the apps get registered through the system, and you can approve, reject, or just let them go through. When I looked at it, it was impossible to manage app control. There was just so much data. I didn't apply that service because I just didn't have the time to manage it. It would be good if there was a way to categorize applications."
"There are cheaper solutions in the market"
"The price could be better. The price is definitely a bit high, but we have to pay a premium for Cisco products."
"Security, overall, can always be improved."
"The reporting could be improved by way of the information that's displayed. For example, when you pull a report, it shows an internal employee going to many websites, but you can spin that right down by saying a lot of it is being cached."
"If I want to see which users access a website, I need an Active Directory registered on Umbrella's cloud."
"I'm hoping for the conversion of Cisco ZTNA's features from Duo to Umbrella."
"The main issue that we have is with the final steps or the full integration and getting rid of Zscaler. The company still has to fall back to Zscaler when something in Umbrella is not working as expected, such as when we enable SSL inspection. When something is not working 100%, the company is falling back to Zscaler."
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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