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Amazon Route 53 vs CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Route 53
Ranking in Managed DNS
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS
Ranking in Managed DNS
17th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of Amazon Route 53 is 12.9%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS is 0.8%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed DNS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Route 5312.9%
CloudFloorDNS Enterprise DNS0.8%
Other86.3%
Managed DNS
 

Featured Reviews

NV
Technical Lead - Cloud at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Security and monitoring features enhance website protection and DNS management effortlessly
For Amazon Route 53, improvements I see include the need for a DNS firewall and a domain-based SSL checker security feature. DNS security is the most important part for me. I feel that whenever you host any kind of website, the first and most important thing is to protect it with a valid SSL. The secure socket layer is essential for the HTTPS green lock in the browser. If I forget to deploy SSL on a website and if my domain hosting is under Amazon Route 53, there should be a mechanism that Amazon Route 53 protects the insecure website using SSL, a thing that the end user does not know whether the SSL certificate comes from the domain, meaning from Amazon Route 53 or from the website.
Jonathan Sprague - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Technical Lead at Octapharma
Support and communication have been great during setup and implementation
Allocating SRV based on geographical location using GeoDNS. This was primarily for a global VOIP deployment. We also use GeoDNS with A records to distribute different versions of websites according to the country which provides us some regulatory value and more direct marketing. It also allows us…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use Amazon Route 53 for dynamic naming and routing policy."
"Its user-friendly interface and compatibility with other AWS services make it valuable."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"Amazon Route 53 is easy to manage and seamlessly integrates with other AWS services."
"The feature for health check efficiently impacts the uptime and reliability of AWS servers including EC2 and EKS."
"One of the best advantages is managed security."
"The tool's health check functionality improved our company's service reliability since it is a good feature."
"Amazon Route 53 is easy to manage and install."
"Great performance, easy configuration."
"Support was outstanding when first setting up in trial mode and also after we had gone live with the product."
"Tough to provide numbers, but avoiding downtime and calls from my employees when the VPN goes down was priceless."
"We have improved our flexibility to deploy web-based or DNS based solutions globally and deliver services more reliably."
 

Cons

"There is a need for technical knowledge to use Amazon Route 53 effectively."
"The platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"With Amazon Route 53, finding what you want is so much more difficult, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The cost calculator for determining the cost of Route 53 is a little bit obscure."
"A general area for improvement with AWS services is that while AWS quickly releases new services, sometimes these services are not as mature as expected, which can be frustrating."
"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’s security and disaster recovery features need enhancement."
"There is room for improvement in restricting access through one website from S3 buckets, as it still seems not very obvious."
"My only recommendation might be a better, more modern interface."
"The email for each line change is excessive, perhaps if the change emails consolidated all changes per domain in a given hour."
"Just to be able to import records with our current DNS product which didn't seem to work with importing domains using AXFR zone transfer records."
"Compared to the other platforms, the interface is not as smooth, but the options and support help make that a non-issue."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the product is perfectly fine in my opinion."
"We pay per use."
"The tool is a bit expensive."
"The price of the solution could be a little bit lower compared to Google DNS, which has more features than Amazon."
"Amazon Route 53 is an expensive solution."
"The price of Amazon Route 53 is reasonable."
"The pricing depends on usage and is moderate."
"Amazon Route 53 is not that expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise13
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Questions from the Community

Azure DNS or Amazon Route 53?
Azure DNS is a hosting service of DNS domains. It has excellent operating time and performance, resulting in fast resolution. We like the ability to view everything in the Azure portal - this makes...
What needs improvement with Amazon Route 53?
There is always a scope for improvement when it comes to price. Even though AWS is available at multiple regions, but within a region, if they can expand their availability domains, that would furt...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Route 53?
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Also Known As

Route 53
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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
Rhapsody, Napster, Everbridge, Voiply, ZVOX, Tivoli Audio, iModules, VOIP Innovations
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