We performed a comparison between Akamai Edge DNS and Amazon Route 53 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."It is a very stable solution since it has a security feature that allows you to recover zone files if you accidentally delete them."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"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."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"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 main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"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 product could improve its price."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"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 solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"When we are looking at the model registry, it may be not clear sometimes. For example, if you use a single grid model and group or registry, it has a different SDK in the pilot. And it may be not so comfortable to use both of them because it is two different places for keeping things in order."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
Akamai Edge DNS is ranked 9th in Managed DNS with 1 review while Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews. Akamai Edge DNS is rated 9.0, while Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Edge DNS writes "A very stable solution with strong security features and an easy initial setup phase". On the other hand, 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". Akamai Edge DNS is most compared with IBM NS1 Connect, Cloudflare DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Google Cloud DNS and Quad9, whereas Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and IBM NS1 Connect.
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