We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Cloudflare DNS 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."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The initial setup is good and straightforward."
"I get a lot of value from Cloudflare's API because it enables you to build a separate environment inside the solution. You can create a domain for performing test requests before you move to the production environment and connect various domains."
"The attacker won't have details since my public IP is anonymous. It offers us good privacy."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is its global reach and it is always evolving."
"Its most significant benefit to date is the speed with which it refreshes DNS records on the internet once you change it. If you are changing a website or registering a new record, it is very quick."
"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"The solution automatically detects and responds to certain types of traffic based on geolocation."
"The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security."
"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"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 product should improve its automation."
"Cloudflare should add more documentation and pricing to the cloud version."
"I believe they currently have this feature, but there will most likely be integration with APIs so we can control some features through API."
"The documentation could improve for Cloudflare DNS."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The tool needs to improve caching of servers. The product needs to include PFX certificate as well."
"The analytics, basically the dashboard, doesn't have much to it."
"Cloudflare doesn't have a reverse lookup. We can only do a DNS lookup to get the IP address from the hostname. It doesn't work if you want to look up the hostname from an IPA address."
"We have noticed multiple instances where Cloudflare falsely indicates that our servers are down, even when there is no actual load on them. This makes it challenging for us to identify the exact issue."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while Cloudflare DNS is ranked 1st in Managed DNS with 13 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Cloudflare DNS is rated 8.6. 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 Cloudflare DNS writes "A tool that offers good performance that needs to improve in areas like assessment and payload". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Akamai Edge DNS and Neustar UltraDNS, whereas Cloudflare DNS is most compared with Quad9, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and Hurricane Electric Free DNS. See our Amazon Route 53 vs. Cloudflare DNS report.
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