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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
15th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of Amazon Route 53 is 11.9%, up from 8.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS is 1.3%, 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 5311.9%
CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS1.3%
Other86.8%
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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 reliability and the durability of the services are quite high."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"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."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"Route 53 is straightforward both via the console and API, providing ease of use."
"Amazon Route 53 is easy to manage and seamlessly integrates with other AWS services."
"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 route mapping feature of Route 53 is valuable as it allows me to map services according to our requirements."
"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."
"Great performance, easy configuration."
"We have improved our flexibility to deploy web-based or DNS based solutions globally and deliver services more reliably."
 

Cons

"A general area for improvement with AWS services is that while AWS quickly releases new services, sometimes these services are not as mature as expected, which can be frustrating."
"There is a need for technical knowledge to use Amazon Route 53 effectively."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"The limitations of the tool revolve around the area of monitoring location, especially since the performance and selection options offered by the product are limited."
"The number of domain types available on AWS, such as the .br domain for Brazil, should be expanded."
"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."
"Error tracing could be made more intuitive."
"The tool's support services lack chat options offered to users, making it an area where improvements are required."
"My only recommendation might be a better, more modern interface."
"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."
"The email for each line change is excessive, perhaps if the change emails consolidated all changes per domain in a given hour."
"Compared to the other platforms, the interface is not as smooth, but the options and support help make that a non-issue."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
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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