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Amazon Route 53 vs Quad9 comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

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
Quad9
Ranking in Managed DNS
4th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Internet Security (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of Amazon Route 53 is 12.6%, up from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quad9 is 22.2%, down from 32.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed DNS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Route 5312.6%
Quad922.2%
Other65.2%
Managed DNS
 

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.
Louis Geoffroy - PeerSpot reviewer
President at IDEBUG
It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems
I have experience with Quad9 and most other filtering solutions. Quad9 was working well initially, but it started slowing, so I switched to OpenDNS. I recently checked Tom's Hardware, an IT review site, and read a review of seven DNS filters. Open DNS was ranked the fastest, and Quad9 was second. Google was on there too, but they said it didn't filter enough.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Route 53 is valued for its health check feature and reliability."
"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."
"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."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"Amazon Route 53 is valuable because it offers aliasing, allowing me to route different services with A records against the DNS."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"One of the best advantages is managed security."
"Its user-friendly interface and compatibility with other AWS services make it valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
 

Cons

"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 number of domain types available on AWS, such as the .br domain for Brazil, should be expanded."
"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 product could improve its price."
"With Amazon Route 53, finding what you want is so much more difficult, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in restricting access through one website from S3 buckets, as it still seems not very obvious."
"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."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon Route 53 is not that expensive."
"Amazon Route 53 is an expensive solution."
"The tool is a bit expensive."
"The price of Amazon Route 53 is reasonable."
"The price of the product is perfectly fine in my opinion."
"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 not an expensive solution."
"We pay per use."
"The price of Quad9 is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
27%
Computer Software Company
8%
Hospitality Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise13
No data available
 

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...
Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?
Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service that offers great redundancy and advanced security with built-in unmetered and ...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
CISCO, Netlab, proofpoint
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Route 53 vs. Quad9 and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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