We performed a comparison between Amazon Route 53 and Quad9 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."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 initial setup is good and straightforward."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"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 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."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that 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 product should improve its automation."
"The product’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"It is difficult to manage the product if the person involved in the setup process doesn't know much about the solution."
"When we are looking at the model registry, it may be not clear sometimes. For example, if you use a single grid model and group or registry, it has a different SDK in the pilot. And it may be not so comfortable to use both of them because it is two different places for keeping things in order."
"The product could improve its price."
"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."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
Amazon Route 53 is ranked 3rd in Managed DNS with 19 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 4th in Managed DNS with 2 reviews. Amazon Route 53 is rated 8.6, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. 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 Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". Amazon Route 53 is most compared with Azure DNS, Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella and BlueCat Integrity, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Verisign Public DNS and Akamai Edge DNS. See our Amazon Route 53 vs. Quad9 report.
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