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."Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"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 solution is cost-effective."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is its global reach and it is always evolving."
"The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security."
"Cloudflare DNS is widely used, and it's good for websites. If we use Cloudflare DNS and update one record, it updates in their office instantly."
"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."
"Its ease of integration with Office 365 and the fact that it's a good product compared to what I had before"
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is security."
"The attacker won't have details since my public IP is anonymous. It offers us good privacy."
"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"The product’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"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 multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The product could improve its price."
"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."
"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."
"Cloudflare should add more documentation and pricing to the cloud version."
"An integrated SSO feature would be useful for Cloudflare DNS."
"The tool needs to improve caching of servers. The product needs to include PFX certificate as well."
"The documentation could improve for Cloudflare DNS."
"There might be helpful if there was some web application firewall feature."
"The analytics, basically the dashboard, doesn't have much to it."
"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 4th in Managed DNS with 16 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 "Effective for processing domain registrations and configuring load balancers". 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 IBM NS1 Connect, 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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