We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Cisco Umbrella 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."The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"It stands out for its user-friendly interface, seamless integration with other AWS services, and ability to efficiently manage DNS, making it a valuable tool for various deployment scenarios, including those involving Kubernetes on AWS."
"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."
"Umbrella, being one pane for managing, being all-encompassing, allows us to quickly go in, make a change, and it applies to either every location, if we want it to, or we can have policies in place that only apply to certain users or certain computers."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes only a few minutes."
"Improves security through DNS visibility, which can block malware, phishing, C&C, etc."
"The agent that gets installed on the endpoints or on people's laptops and devices is a Cisco AnyConnect Umbrella module. It's one of the most impressive things because you are able to protect your users anywhere they are."
"It has the ability to quickly block new threats."
"The single-pane-of-glass management is really important. In today's era, administration costs and operational expenses will cost you a lot, and it reduces that as well. You don't need extra resources to manage all your parameter firewalls, looking at every single device to allow resources internal access. By just introducing the single-pane-of-glass management, it has lifted the burden off of management, especially the network management."
"If it didn't have a single pane of glass, we would not be using it. The single pane of glass gives you a one-stop shop. It's like going to Home Depot. You find all your stuff there. You can see all your threats and your endpoints. It's a very important feature and makes things very simple."
"The most valuable feature is the website protection capabilities because it prevents end-users from entering bad sites that potentially have malware or could be used for phishing."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"The platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"The product’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"The product should improve its automation."
"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 solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"I would like for them to continue building on IPS and IDS functionalities."
"The reporting could be improved by way of the information that's displayed. For example, when you pull a report, it shows an internal employee going to many websites, but you can spin that right down by saying a lot of it is being cached."
"The rule-making process for blocking sites or for blocking characteristics can use some simplification."
"For us, as an MSP, the initial licensing changes were a roadblock, and they still could be a lot clearer. Specifically, it's an honor-based licensing system. We'd like it to be more specific to our traffic or our users so that we can make sure that the customer is paying for all their licensing."
"The pricing changes too fast. We get the license and we need to relicense it because they already made changes to it. We always need to be on top of the licenses because they're always changing."
"In the future, they should combine some of the Cisco AMP features that they already have, for anti-malware purposes."
"I would like them to make some videos, practical videos, the kind with steps that people can use to learn and deploy"
"Cisco Umbrella should add some more documentation on proxies."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. 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 Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Akamai Edge DNS and IBM NS1 Connect, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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