AWS Certificate Manager vs. Google Cloud DNS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Certificate Manager
Score 7.8 out of 10
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AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets users provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and internal connected resources.N/A
Google Cloud DNS
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud DNS is a managed DNS service, featuring a global network of anycast servers and touting reliability, availability, and performance.N/A
Pricing
AWS Certificate ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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AWS Certificate ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AWS Certificate ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
Considered Both Products
AWS Certificate Manager
Chose AWS Certificate Manager
Much easier to generate new certificates and validate them directly in Route53 rather than have to generate them on servers via Let's Encrypt and then have to import them somewhere else, and then have to re-validate them every few months.
Chose AWS Certificate Manager
Easy to implement within a few clicks, or even from command line, the alternatives doesn't integrate that easy with AWS Application Load Balancers or AWS CloudFront
Chose AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Certificate Manager and IAM are the only options inside the AWS stack to manage and serve certificates at the infrastructure level, like Elastic Load Balancer for example. Of course, you can install certificates at the instance level. For example, you can install a …
Google Cloud DNS
Chose Google Cloud DNS
My initial query discovered Google Cloud DNS and because we were familiar with and trusted that brand already, we didn’t even bother to evaluate the other option I’d found: Cloudflare DNS. When you are happy with a brand’s products, there is no need to waste time looking for …
Chose Google Cloud DNS
At the time Google DNS was free for most features. We already use google for a variety of needs, so it integrated well. We tried a few other products, but they were expensive (for our needs) or cumbersome. Training was simple with Google DNS, for IT adjacent staff. Other …
Chose Google Cloud DNS
We selected Google cloud DNS maily for it friendly use, now we can acces the same IP server from differet computers and that has change pur work a lot. Now our costumer joourney is more agil. Also we are able to have our own private VPN and everything is more secure
Chose Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud is the easiest to use sharing platform available. Other platforms are not as accessible as accessing the Google drive when you are logged in with your Google account. Trello has a limited sharing capacity which I have not experienced with Google Drive. Our …
Chose Google Cloud DNS
We chose Google because it was so affordable and integrated obviously very easily with our other Google products we're already using like Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager. Using everything within Google simplifies our workflows and makes it easy to find receipts and …
Chose Google Cloud DNS
Amazon Route 53 offers almost equal or slightly more features than Google Cloud DNS; we selected Google Cloud DNS because the rest of our projects use Google Cloud Platform.
Also, since AWS is a bigger service provider, their pricing is also higher; since Google Cloud DNS …
Chose Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS is just as good as some other premium DNS services and definitely better than some (such as Godaddy). I generally choose Google Cloud DNS when I am already using other Google Cloud tools for a project as it just makes sense. From one account I can manage the …
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AWS Certificate ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS Certificate ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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Usability
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User Testimonials
AWS Certificate ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
Ability to upload our clients' private ssl certificates to then be used across other AWS services. Great to integrate with Route53 and be able to generate internal SSL certificates to be used across other services.
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Google Cloud DNS is well suited in most cases - it has a clean interface, plenty of configuration options, available to view and edit on the Google console.
It may not be as well suited for novice users since the documentation about the various fields is not always available near where the fields need to be set.
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Pros
  • Easy to use interface
  • Really straight forward functionality
  • Simple and effective
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  • Interface is user friendly
  • It is safe , Secure and reliable
  • It has lower pricing plans
  • They have good customer support
  • They do have good documentation to have fair ideas on their offerings
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Cons
  • Domain name validation is time consuming, and requires manual effort.
  • Domain name validation could be avoided if the domain provider is AWS, they can validate it internally.
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  • It is hard for first time user to get used to it.
  • Support is restricted for 3rd party services who uses it
  • Sometimes the support people take more than 24hrs to reply to our queries, But it is not for all issues.
  • Search function could have been made easy to search records
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Usability
AWS historically has had very confusing interfaces. But in recent times they have improved them. AWS Certificate Manager is a clear sample of this. The interface is clear and straightforward, with no useless or cryptic options. Really I can't think of a way the interface could be better with the actual options available.
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This is exceptionally simple to utilize in the event that you are as of now utilizing Google Cloud Services or you are important for the Google Ecosystem as of now. I accept this is likely the primary goal of Google Cloud DNS, to give a more complete set-up of devices to Google Cloud clients. Consequently, I would rate convenience a 9.
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Support Rating
They do a great job.
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In the event that you are utilizing Google Cloud Platform as your cloud supplier, Google Cloud DNS is unquestionably the DNS supplier to utilize.
I haven't required help for it yet, notwithstanding, in my experience, Google Support is incredible.
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Alternatives Considered
Easy to implement within a few clicks, or even from command line, the alternatives doesn't integrate that easy with AWS Application Load Balancers or AWS CloudFront
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Google Cloud is the easiest to use sharing platform available. Other platforms are not as accessible as accessing the Google drive when you are logged in with your Google account. Trello has a limited sharing capacity which I have not experienced with Google Drive. Our institution has afforded us unlimited space on the Google Cloud platform which was more of a struggle to obtain on Dropbox. Teams would select and use Dropbox voluntarily and have to arrange payments and claims. I also find that Dropbox sends a multitude of emails regarding storage and upgrades while Google Cloud is generally silent but highly effective as a storage tool
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Return on Investment
  • We're saving our spent on SSL certificates As it dosen't costs at all.
  • Limited to AWS only, Certificates issued by ACM can be used with AWS managed services only.
  • It doesn't support automatic domain verification with other DNS management systems.
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  • We use GCP for all our projects so Google Cloud DNS fits perfectly
  • It is proving to scale well so good for us since we are a growing company
  • It is easy to use and doesn't require a separate team to maintain
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