Amazon Route 53 vs. GoDaddy

Amazon Route 53

62 Reviews and Ratings

GoDaddy

191 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
GoDaddy	Score9 out of 10	N/A	GoDaddy Web Hosting provides users with storage, email addresses, and unlimited bandwith.	$9.99 per month

Pricing

Amazon Route 53

GoDaddy

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

Basic: as low as $6.99
per month with an annual term
Basic: as low as $10.49
per month with an annual term
Premium: as low as $13.49
per month with an annual term
Commerce: as low as $14.99
per month with an annual term

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

No setup fee

Optional

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Discounts available for annual subscription.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon Route 53	GoDaddy
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Bob Smith Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at CodeLinguists (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon Route 53 When working with AWS, Route 53 is hands down the better solution. If you live in GCP, then Google Cloud DNS is the way to go. GoDaddy is more of a consumer-facing product and is perfectly fine when Services are not being utilized in any Cloud Environment. Eventually, all of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Route 53 GoDaddy is fine if you just want to have a domain and set up a few simple records. But if part of your business is transferring domains and constantly updating records for new websites, email changes, and security, then a registrar-based DNS service just won't cut it. Route 53 … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect in Engineering at SpringAhead (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Route 53 Route 53 is head and shoulders above GoDaddy. GoDaddy's DNS availability was problematic with us earlier on and at that time we made a decision to move our domains to Route 53 under Amazon. Since then we haven't experienced any DNS outages and it has been pretty rock solid. … Incentivized Helpful? Anatoly Lubarsky Founder and lead developer in Research & Development at x2line (Computer Games, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon Route 53 Amazon Route 53 is intended for simple websites that host HTML5 or static content. This is probably the default solution if you need something simple and don't want to rent a web server to host a website. It is good to host full functional but simple website or HTML5 game. Incentivized Helpful? Gnanasekar Mani Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Brillio (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon Route 53 Kinda of costly and doesn't have many services which Amazon is able to offer. And Route 53 is slightly faster than it. Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Cauwels DevOps Engineer in Engineering at CBRE (Real Estate, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Route 53 Route53 was used because I initially thought we were going to have our infrastructure on AWS. Once our team transitioned to Google Cloud, I was left scrambling to migrate our DNS solution to point to those servers instead. Because there is a mandatory 45-day transfer wait … Incentivized Helpful?	GoDaddy Anatoly Lubarsky Founder and lead developer in Research & Development at x2line (Computer Games, 1-10 employees) Chose GoDaddy SoftLayer and HighVelocity are better in terms of advanced web hosting and dedicated hosting than GoDaddy in my opinion. GoDaddy's main business is domain hosting and basic web hosting and GoDaddy is better at it in my opinion. Amazon Route 53 provides simple domain and web … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Full Stack Developer in Engineering at Journey Group, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose GoDaddy If you want to host your a little mom and pop shop's website, any host will do. Use Bluehost or one of the many other CPANEL hosts out there. If you're in the buisness of doing serious web applications or hosting significant products or sites, then go with Rackspace or AWS. I'm … Incentivized Helpful?
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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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User Ratings
	Amazon Route 53	GoDaddy
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (25 ratings)	9.0 (57 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (5 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (6 ratings)	10.0 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)