Amazon Route 53 vs. Cloudflare

Amazon Route 53

62 Reviews and Ratings

Cloudflare

524 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Route 53	Score9.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon 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
Cloudflare	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.	$20 per month

Pricing

Amazon Route 53

Cloudflare

Standard: $0.40
Per Zone Per Month
Queries: $0.60
Per Million Queries

Pro: $20
per month
Business: $200
per month
Free: Free
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Route 53	Cloudflare
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Amazon Route 53	Cloudflare
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon Route 53 We purchased our domain names through Networksolutions.com and do rely on their DNS services for basic functionality (SPF hard reject records, etc.), since it was included at no cost; however, for our main domains, we utilize Route 53 because of AWS's high availability, … Incentivized Helpful? Piyush Goel Senior Vice President - Engineering in Engineering at Capillary Technologies (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Amazon Route 53 Cloudflare is also similar in the features to Route 53. However, since we are completely hosted on the AWS cloud, we can't use Cloudflare for configuring our internal networks, and integrating with the other services. The API based integration of AWS via Terraform is another … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Route 53 CloudFlare has been good for anything external facing, but Route53 has met our needs perfectly for anything internal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Route 53 Since we are heavy users of AWS, it was only natural for us to go with Route53. It's well integrated with other AWS services, and domain creation and modifications can get automated with the infrastructure itself, with tools like terraform. We also use Cloudfront and ALBs … Incentivized Helpful?	Cloudflare Wenhan Rong DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at VirgoCX (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cloudflare Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable CDN service integrated with AWS. Couldflare provides us more other functions and services than Amazon CloudFront. Google Cloud CDN offers fast and reliable content delivery with integration into Google Cloud services. But we didn't deploy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Overall we are using Cloudflare as well as AWS cloud across various domains in our organization. To some extent such as DNS management on Route53, CloudFront takes advantage of Cloudflare as it provides a straightforward UI for DNS management. But when it comes to traffic … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Hill CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at BioClinical Services (Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare Simple and consistent UX across the product suite. DNS + CDN layer complete with SSL is amazing Security layer built in Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare is the best option for my business for my use cases aligns exactly with what Cloudflare provides. Fastly only offers 1 month of free trial while AWS Route 53 is heavily integrated with AWS cloud. I want the flexibility to launch my own VPS and have a CDN, DDoS … Incentivized Helpful? Brendon Brown eComerce Director in Information Technology at Island City Media (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare We're working with CloudFlare for the balance of simplicity of configuration, cost and robustness. Our experiences of other software have been far too fiddly with pages of buried controls, far too simplistic, or full of scaling costs that make them prohibitive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare I really like their support and the chance to trial it for free. Incentivized Helpful? Robby Barnes Sr. Director of Technology in Information Technology at 215 Tech (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Cloudflare The other solutions had aspects of what we were looking for, but either they didn't match all of the requirements we were trying to meet, or they just approached the problem in a way we didn't like. We really wanted a serverless cloud-first solution that could connect from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare is a full DNS and load balancing system. AWS CloudFront handles load balancing and DDoS prevention, but on its own requires other services to handle DNS and various other features that are baked directly into Cloudflare. If you're hosting on AWS already, using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cloudflare Cloudflare is less expensive with better performance. What more coudl you ask for? DigitalOcean has been great but when comparing costs to features, Cloudflare is cheaper for object storage and better performing across their large network. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Amazon Route 53	Cloudflare
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (25 ratings)	9.2 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (5 ratings)	8.6 (8 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (6 ratings)	9.0 (141 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)