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 most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"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."
"You can host your zone and name servers here, and keeping track of records is easy."
"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."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"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."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"The product should improve its automation."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in 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."
"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."
"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."
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 Neustar UltraDNS.
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