We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Cloudflare DNS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Managed DNS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare DNS is its global reach and it is always evolving."
"I get a lot of value from Cloudflare's API because it enables you to build a separate environment inside the solution. You can create a domain for performing test requests before you move to the production environment and connect various domains."
"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."
"Its ease of integration with Office 365 and the fact that it's a good product compared to what I had before"
"Cloudflare DNS is widely used, and it's good for websites. If we use Cloudflare DNS and update one record, it updates in their office instantly."
"The attacker won't have details since my public IP is anonymous. It offers us good privacy."
"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."
"Its most significant benefit to date is the speed with which it refreshes DNS records on the internet once you change it. If you are changing a website or registering a new record, it is very quick."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"The product could improve its price."
"The product’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"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."
"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."
"There might be helpful if there was some web application firewall feature."
"The documentation could improve for Cloudflare DNS."
"I believe they currently have this feature, but there will most likely be integration with APIs so we can control some features through API."
"Cloudflare doesn't have a reverse lookup. We can only do a DNS lookup to get the IP address from the hostname. It doesn't work if you want to look up the hostname from an IPA address."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"We have noticed multiple instances where Cloudflare falsely indicates that our servers are down, even when there is no actual load on them. This makes it challenging for us to identify the exact issue."
"The analytics, basically the dashboard, doesn't have much to it."
"It would be helpful if the solution could continue evolving to compete with the other solutions on the market."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while Cloudflare DNS is ranked 1st in Managed DNS with 13 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Cloudflare DNS is rated 8.6. 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 Cloudflare DNS writes "A tool that offers good performance that needs to improve in areas like assessment and payload". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Akamai Edge DNS and Neustar UltraDNS, whereas Cloudflare DNS is most compared with Quad9, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and Hurricane Electric Free DNS. See our Amazon Route 53 vs. Cloudflare DNS report.
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