We performed a comparison between Akamai Edge DNS and Amazon Route 53 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."It is a very stable solution since it has a security feature that allows you to recover zone files if you accidentally delete them."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The initial setup is good and straightforward."
"The solution effectively monitors the health of resources and provides good identity access management."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it works very well."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"The product could improve its price."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"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."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"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 should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"The multiple routing policies present in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
Akamai Edge DNS is ranked 9th in Managed DNS with 1 review while Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews. Akamai Edge DNS is rated 9.0, while Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Edge DNS writes "A very stable solution with strong security features and an easy initial setup phase". On the other hand, 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". Akamai Edge DNS is most compared with IBM NS1 Connect, Cloudflare DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Google Cloud DNS and Quad9, whereas Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and Neustar UltraDNS.
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