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Amazon Route 53 vs Quad9 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
Quad9
Ranking in Managed DNS
4th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Internet Security (7th)
 

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 Quad9 is 23.9%, down from 33.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed DNS Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Route 5312.9%
Quad923.9%
Other63.2%
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.
Louis Geoffroy - PeerSpot reviewer
President at IDEBUG
It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems
I have experience with Quad9 and most other filtering solutions. Quad9 was working well initially, but it started slowing, so I switched to OpenDNS. I recently checked Tom's Hardware, an IT review site, and read a review of seven DNS filters. Open DNS was ranked the fastest, and Quad9 was second. Google was on there too, but they said it didn't filter enough.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Amazon Route 53 is excellent for those dealing with traffic management and routing services."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The solution is used to manage servers, and its interface is easy to use."
"Route 53 is straightforward both via the console and API, providing ease of use."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"We haven't faced any outages or issues directly related to Route 53. It has been 100% stable for me."
"The solution offers you the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"Technical support from Amazon is very good...Overall, the product is stable."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"Route 53 supports DNSSEC, and it may not be available for all domain types or configurations. It can become expensive as usage scales, especially with advanced features and high query volumes. Slower response time with lower-tier support plan."
"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 platform is more complicated to learn than one of its competitors."
"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."
"With Amazon Route 53, finding what you want is so much more difficult, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"There are no detailed logs, and they should implement that in the solution."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon Route 53 is not that expensive."
"The tool is a bit expensive."
"The price of the product is perfectly fine in my opinion."
"We pay per use."
"Amazon Route 53 is not an expensive solution."
"Amazon Route 53 is an expensive solution."
"The price of Amazon Route 53 is reasonable."
"It can be expensive compared to some other providers."
"The price of Quad9 is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
25%
Computer Software Company
8%
Hospitality Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
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...
Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?
Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service that offers great redundancy and advanced security with built-in unmetered and ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
CISCO, Netlab, proofpoint
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Route 53 vs. Quad9 and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
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