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 solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"You can host your zone and name servers here, and keeping track of records is easy."
"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."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"The initial setup is good and straightforward."
"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 features of the solution are performance and security."
"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"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 most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is security."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is external DNS. It is also very secure. They have their own main server and once you configure it, the product takes care of everything. There are no issues in resolving IPs and low latency is also present."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 product could improve its price."
"The product should improve its automation."
"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Cloudflare's free plan is limited to 5,000 records for their free plan. They should increase that. For example, if I create a domain called abc.com and a subdomain called a.abc.com, my record count will be two. I can make a maximum of 5,000 subdomains. However, if we use our own DNS hosted on another provider, there is no limit. Their free plan also lacks name server customization."
"It would be helpful if the solution could continue evolving to compete with the other solutions on the market."
"The analytics, basically the dashboard, doesn't have much to it."
"There might be helpful if there was some web application firewall feature."
"The documentation could improve for Cloudflare DNS."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve caching of servers. The product needs to include PFX certificate as well."
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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