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 offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The initial setup is good and straightforward."
"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 feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"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."
"You can host your zone and name servers here, and keeping track of records is easy."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"What we like most is security and how easy it is to integrate with other appliances."
"I was able to implement it myself. It was really easy to install. You could install it on a server locally if you want to. If you have the biggest site, you would do that, but for my site, it was just directing all the traffic out through the Cisco Umbrella DNS. It was really handy. When the owners of the company went overseas, I knew that they would be secure because even if they were not on the company network, they would still go through the Cisco Umbrella servers. It was a complete solution for protecting the company with outgoing data."
"Improves security through DNS visibility, which can block malware, phishing, C&C, etc."
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to manage the solution."
"Meraki features and cloud-based functionality are advanced and easy to manage centrally."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"Web proxy adds an effective layer for security."
"We immediately block impersonating users from accessing services over Cisco Umbrella-controlled devices."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"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 have a more user-friendly user interface."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"The product could improve its price."
"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 cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"We faced an issue regarding virtual appliances (VAs) during deployment. They could improve the quality and management of the virtual appliances offered right now. You can't see much because it is a Linux machine, and they have customized it. You don't have any route access to the machine, only seeing limited things in it. When we opened a ticket, they didn't know much about VAs themselves. So, that is where it is lacking right now. I know this will improve in the long run."
"Support for multiple domains is important to us."
"Security, overall, can always be improved."
"The firewall capabilities could be better. Cisco is starting to introduce some layer 7 capabilities now, but there's still some room to grow. They should continue with the development of Umbrella so that it is a full-blown cloud-managed firewall solution."
"iOS devices and mobiles are huge in my environment right now, and I cannot run them on Cisco Umbrella 24/7."
"They should provide more integrations and bring things together so that there is a more standard feel to their platform. We also use Cisco ISE, and it has a very different feel from Cisco Umbrella."
"Its reliability and the response time of the support team can be better."
"The pricing changes too fast. We get the license and we need to relicense it because they already made changes to it. We always need to be on top of the licenses because they're always changing."
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 IBM NS1 Connect, 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 Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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