We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Cisco Umbrella 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."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."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"The most valuable feature is that it works very well."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"It offers good visibility for the Administrator. The administrator has full visibility of what is blocked or has the knowledge of where users go when they are surfing the internet."
"We use Cisco Umbrella for DNS filtering and as a secure gateway."
"Web proxy adds an effective layer for security."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to filter malware sites that could infect clients or allow them to download infected files."
"The most valuable features are the protection against ransomware and phishing."
"Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism."
"It has improved our organization from a security posture perspective. We feel more confident now knowing that we can block phishing attempts or any type of malware that is DNS-related. This is a very nice feature that provides peace of mind."
"The most valuable feature is that it secures our network against blacklisted or malicious websites."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"The product should improve its automation."
"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 solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"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."
"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."
"If the virtual appliances could also gather traffic bandwidth reports, that would be great."
"It's a very new product, so it's quite immature at the moment. It can be more user friendly."
"There is room for improvement in the dashboard. It could stand to be a bit more detailed. I would also like to be able to customize the dashboard to focus more on what is important for my company."
"The pricing changes too fast. We get the license and we need to relicense it because they already made changes to it. We always need to be on top of the licenses because they're always changing."
"The firewall capabilities could be better. Cisco is starting to introduce some layer 7 capabilities now, but there's still some room to grow. They should continue with the development of Umbrella so that it is a full-blown cloud-managed firewall solution."
"I would like to see Cisco enable us to get objects from the internet. I would also like to be able to choose groups."
"Some countries don't have a DNS server leading to a domain resolution IP, not at a local level."
"I would like to see DLP integration in the next release of this solution."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 18 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Route 53 writes "Provides good DNS mapping, routing, and traffic flow features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Akamai Edge DNS and IBM NS1 Connect, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG.
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