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, Quad9 DNS 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 initial setup is good and straightforward."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"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."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
Akamai Edge DNS is ranked 9th in Managed DNS with 1 review while Amazon Route 53 is ranked 4th in Managed DNS with 16 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 "Effective for processing domain registrations and configuring load balancers". 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 Neustar UltraDNS.
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