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Amazon Route 53 vs Infoblox BloxOne DDI comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infoblox BloxOne DDI
Ranking in Managed DNS
5th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (5th), DDI (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Managed DNS category, the mindshare of Amazon Route 53 is 13.0%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infoblox BloxOne DDI is 1.0%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed DNS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Route 5313.0%
Infoblox BloxOne DDI1.0%
Other86.0%
Managed DNS
 

Featured Reviews

Mahadev Metre - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Paydoh
Centralized DNS management has improved secure routing, monitoring, and compliance for our domains
The most valuable features of Amazon Route 53 that I have found include hosted zones, which allow us to configure domains for different hosted zones, a crucial aspect for sectors such as banking and finance that require DC and DR for data disaster recovery, as well as the ability to add alias records, such as A and CNAME records. This enables us to manage subdomains easily, such as us-sub.com under the main domain us.com, which is generated and trusted by ACM. Additionally, Amazon Route 53 includes a useful DNS firewall feature. The integration of Amazon Route 53 with AWS services optimizes our infrastructure management, as today's architecture is migrated to serverless. Keeping everything within AWS, including the DNS resolver in a single VPC and protected, significantly improves security and compliance, and everything is logged into CloudTrail and monitored via CloudWatch.
Mike Yalden - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Security Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Have built secure, automated DNS pipelines and simplified cloud DNS management through integration
I would like to see a bunch of templated or policy-driven provisioning for DNSSEC in the next release of Infoblox BloxOne DDI. Additionally, I would like to see DNS hosting so you do not have to deploy the NIOS appliances yourself or manage another cloud DNS service. This would allow you to pare back your DNS registration and hosting to just registrar services. That way, you would have a fully integrated, vertically integrated API stack for being able to affect all of your automated changes against your actual public authorities as well rather than just your internal resolvers and authorities. I think that would be something quite cool for them to have.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Route 53 is straightforward both via the console and API, providing ease of use."
"The tool's most valuable feature is in the area of domain registration and routing DNS."
"Amazon's customer support is very good with a quick response time."
"The main DNS resolution is really, really fast."
"Amazon Route 53 is a DNS resolution service that helps you to map your hostname to another hostname."
"Amazon Route 53 is valuable because it offers aliasing, allowing me to route different services with A records against the DNS."
"You can host your zone and name servers here, and keeping track of records is easy."
"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."
"In my experience, I am satisfied with the functionality; there is no lack of functions, and it is a very powerful solution because they work with this technology, so they are probably number one."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox BloxOne DDI are its ability to manage all DDI services effectively and monitor them in real-time."
"It actually prevents a lot of false alarms because if a link is blocked by antivirus, it creates an alert for the IT risk team to investigate. By not resolving the IP for a malicious link, it stops many issues before they escalate. This has improved our security posture significantly."
"The overall product rating is ten out of ten."
"When we compare, if we spend 200,000 to 250,000 every year or every second year on security compliance, that is money we could transfer into the licensing for a SaaS service such as Infoblox BloxOne DDI, then we get all of the continuous patching, threat analysis, and that type of capability coming through without having to maintain such skilled staff."
"A valuable feature is blocking domain generation, which automatically generates domains to protect the internal network."
 

Cons

"Supporting DNS check is one feature missing 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."
"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."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"Error tracing could be made more intuitive."
"The solution should include more robust and secure services for hardening sites."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"There are probably some strict agreements, and the answers are probably not so rapid. The responsiveness could at least be improved, but I have not had many cases, just a few."
"At this stage, we are struggling to use some of the DNS features of the platform, which are more about protecting your domain from hijacking and similar threats."
"Infoblox BloxOne DDI is good to use, but there could be improvements in its visualization and dashboarding UI."
"Infoblox is fairly expensive for my customers. I am unsure if this is a general comment or specific to my situation."
"Infoblox BloxOne DDI would not be for smaller companies. I think if you are under 1,200 staff, you probably want to look for a professional service or something that is integrated into the platforms you have already got."
"There is a need for a comprehensive database on DNS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Amazon Route 53 is reasonable."
"The price of the product is perfectly fine in my opinion."
"Amazon Route 53 is not an expensive solution."
"We pay per use."
"The pricing depends on usage and is moderate."
"The tool is a bit expensive."
"Amazon Route 53 is an expensive solution."
"Amazon Route 53 is not that expensive."
"I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with ten being very expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise13
No data available
 

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?
We are not using AWS for ourselves, but we create solutions on AWS products for our customers. Majorly it is EC2, RDS, and in certain cases, we also do Kubernetes and then storage solutions, networ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infoblox BloxOne DDI?
Infoblox is fairly expensive for my customers. I am unsure if this is a general comment or specific to my situation. Customers wonder if discounts or promotions are available.
What needs improvement with Infoblox BloxOne DDI?
There are probably some strict agreements, and the answers are probably not so rapid. It is just a matter of setting the right expectations. The responsiveness could at least be improved, but I hav...
What is your primary use case for Infoblox BloxOne DDI?
I am working in the enterprise part where we manage DNS, and we use other solutions that are oriented to provide DHCP and DNS at the enterprise level. I am referring to Infoblox. Currently, I am mo...
 

Also Known As

Route 53
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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
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