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 most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"The most valuable feature is that it works very well."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is security."
"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"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."
"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."
"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 most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is its global reach and it is always evolving."
"The solution automatically detects and responds to certain types of traffic based on geolocation."
"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."
"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 solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"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."
"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."
"The product could improve its price."
"The documentation could improve for Cloudflare DNS."
"An integrated SSO feature would be useful for Cloudflare DNS."
"Cloudflare should add more documentation and pricing to the cloud version."
"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."
"There might be helpful if there was some web application firewall feature."
"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."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"I believe they currently have this feature, but there will most likely be integration with APIs so we can control some features through API."
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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