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Amazon Route 53 vs. Azure DNS

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Route 53

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Route 53 is a Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) offered by Amazon AWS as a reliable way to route visitors to web applications and other site traffic to locations within a company's infrastructure, which can be configured to monitor the health and performance of traffic and endpoints in the network.

    $0.40

    Per Zone Per Month

    Azure DNS

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Azure DNS, a managed network of name servers supplying availability, support for migration, and DNS security.

    $0.10

    per zone/per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Route 53Azure DNS
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $0.40
    Per Zone Per Month
    Queries
    $0.60
    Per Million Queries
    Additional hosted DNS zones (over 25)
    $0.10
    per zone/per month
    Additional DNS queries (over 1 billion)/month
    $0.20
    per million
    First billion DNS queries/month
    $0.40
    per million
    First 25 hosted DNS zones
    $0.50
    per zone/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Route 53Azure DNS
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Route 53Azure DNS
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Route 53
    Both Azure DNS and GoDaddy's DNS works great, but when you use AWS services and infrastructure, it is much easier to use AWS DNS service. Using AWS DNS service you can manage and maintain your infrastructure in one place, it saves some time. If you use AWS services, you can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Route 53
    We chose Amazon Route 53 over Azure DNS for its advanced routing, built-in health checks, and seamless integration with AWS services like EC2, ALB, and CloudFront. Amazon Route 53 also supports domain registration and automated failover, which Azure DNS lacks natively. Its …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Route 53
    Amazon Route 53 DNS service is much better than GCP and Azure or any other cloud provider DNS service due to the fact that it not only provides basic DNS service but on top of it it offers firewall DNS feature i.e. rules and policies can be defined to allow/reject certain …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Azure DNS
    As we have all our infrastructure on Azure it was much more feasible for us to use Azure DNS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure DNS
    Azure is slightly better than the competition on ease of use and simplicity of the interface. On features , I think the competition has caught on. We selected Azure for it's reliability and speed.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Route 53Azure DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (25 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)