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 initial setup is good and straightforward."
"The solution has a user-friendly dashboard."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"The most valuable feature is that it works very well."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the DNS, routing, and traffic features."
"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"You can host your zone and name servers here, and keeping track of records is easy."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"The product could improve its price."
"The product’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing in the solution."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"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 should improve its automation."
"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."
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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