Azure DNS vs. Google Cloud DNS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure DNS
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers Azure DNS, a managed network of name servers supplying availability, support for migration, and DNS security.
$0.10
per zone/per month
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
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Considered Both Products
Azure DNS
Chose Azure DNS
As we have all our infrastructure on Azure it was much more feasible for us to use Azure DNS.
Chose Azure DNS
The implementation process was fairly easy, quick, and straightforward compared to other estimated timelines from competitors.
The price is fair for the service, while the customer success team and engineers know what they are doing, making the entire process smooth and …
Chose Azure DNS
implemented Azure DNS services one of our client hosted their construction ecommerce website at Azure ubuntu server. but data pushed towards websites from different lead forms and sales advertisements got delayed due to DNS latency with their old vendor. Later changed Azure DNS …
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.
Chose Azure DNS
It was more cost effective and it worked better with our current Azure environment
Chose Azure DNS
If you migrate from Windows Server DNS to Azure Cloud, then you have to use Azure DNS.
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 …
Best Alternatives
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS
Score 8.9 out of 10
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
Using Azure DNS, you can easily and quickly deploy and manage your domain DNS. It's been an excellent introduction to our web services requirements. It offers all services on a single platform and integrates with other applications. It not only offers DNS services for websites but also for your applications.
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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
  • User interface is easy to use
  • Detects ISP change fast
  • Easy purchase - both domain and DNS management can be bought from the same portal
  • Availability of advanced management
  • Fast and Reliable
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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
  • The record set search can improve.
  • Azure DNS comes at an extra cost, Need to decrease some cost.
  • Better dashboard needed with all the details availability.
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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
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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
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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
As we have all our infrastructure on Azure it was much more feasible for us to use Azure DNS.
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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
  • Billing in the same invoice. positive point
  • DNSSEC not yet included. negative impact for high transaction commerce websites
  • DNS SSL encryption not yet included. negative impact for high transaction pay wallet websites
  • Not required 3rd party DNS services. positive impact
  • Not required additional resource to manage these services. positive impact
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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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