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Amazon Route 53 vs CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Route 53
Ranking in Managed DNS
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS
Ranking in Managed DNS
16th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of Amazon Route 53 is 12.2%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS is 1.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed DNS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Route 5312.2%
CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS1.2%
Other86.6%
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Featured Reviews

Mahadev Metre - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Paydoh
Centralized DNS management has improved secure routing, monitoring, and compliance for our domains
The most valuable features of Amazon Route 53 that I have found include hosted zones, which allow us to configure domains for different hosted zones, a crucial aspect for sectors such as banking and finance that require DC and DR for data disaster recovery, as well as the ability to add alias records, such as A and CNAME records. This enables us to manage subdomains easily, such as us-sub.com under the main domain us.com, which is generated and trusted by ACM. Additionally, Amazon Route 53 includes a useful DNS firewall feature. The integration of Amazon Route 53 with AWS services optimizes our infrastructure management, as today's architecture is migrated to serverless. Keeping everything within AWS, including the DNS resolver in a single VPC and protected, significantly improves security and compliance, and everything is logged into CloudTrail and monitored via CloudWatch.
Jonathan Sprague - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Technical Lead at Octapharma
Support and communication have been great during setup and implementation
Allocating SRV based on geographical location using GeoDNS. This was primarily for a global VOIP deployment. We also use GeoDNS with A records to distribute different versions of websites according to the country which provides us some regulatory value and more direct marketing. It also allows us…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The tool's health check functionality improved our company's service reliability since it is a good feature."
"I find Amazon Route 53 valuable for its ability to manage DNS records and efficiently route traffic with features like failover routing and geolocation routing."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"I find that Amazon Route 53 solves the legacy issues and offers a modern approach to domain resolution."
"The most valuable feature is that it works very well."
"The route mapping feature of Route 53 is valuable as it allows me to map services according to our requirements."
"Route 53 is valued for its health check feature and reliability."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"Great performance, easy configuration."
"Support was outstanding when first setting up in trial mode and also after we had gone live with the product."
"Tough to provide numbers, but avoiding downtime and calls from my employees when the VPN goes down was priceless."
"We have improved our flexibility to deploy web-based or DNS based solutions globally and deliver services more reliably."
 

Cons

"The solution’s pricing and technical support could be improved."
"Since DNS is based on internet access, improving some security features would improve internet quality worldwide."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"Route 53 supports DNSSEC, and it may not be available for all domain types or configurations. It can become expensive as usage scales, especially with advanced features and high query volumes. Slower response time with lower-tier support plan."
"The product should improve its automation."
"The product could improve its price."
"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."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"Compared to the other platforms, the interface is not as smooth, but the options and support help make that a non-issue."
"Just to be able to import records with our current DNS product which didn't seem to work with importing domains using AXFR zone transfer records."
"My only recommendation might be a better, more modern interface."
"The email for each line change is excessive, perhaps if the change emails consolidated all changes per domain in a given hour."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing depends on usage and is moderate."
"It can be expensive compared to some other providers."
"Amazon Route 53 is an expensive solution."
"The price of the solution could be a little bit lower compared to Google DNS, which has more features than Amazon."
"The tool is a bit expensive."
"Amazon Route 53 is not that expensive."
"We pay per use."
"The price of Amazon Route 53 is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise13
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Questions from the Community

Azure DNS or Amazon Route 53?
Azure DNS is a hosting service of DNS domains. It has excellent operating time and performance, resulting in fast resolution. We like the ability to view everything in the Azure portal - this makes...
What needs improvement with Amazon Route 53?
Some improvements I suggest for Amazon Route 53 include considering an accelerated recovery time that should be less than sixty minutes for a production environment, simplifying multi-account and m...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Route 53?
My usual use cases for Amazon Route 53 involve using it for our company domain, domain purpose, DNS resolution, domain registration for our company, health checks of our monitoring domains, and tra...
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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
Rhapsody, Napster, Everbridge, Voiply, ZVOX, Tivoli Audio, iModules, VOIP Innovations
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