Amazon Route 53 vs. Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

Amazon Route 53

62 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

203 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
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS	Score8.8 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Route 53

Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

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

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon Route 53	Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Amazon Route 53	Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS No answer on this topic	Oracle Dhruvan Tanna SRE in Engineering at Crest Data Systems (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS As our organization had an ample amount of DNS to manage, it was quite inconvenient when it comes to Amazon Route 53 or any other alternatives as the change propagation time was pretty much high as compared to Oracle Dyn Managed DNS. And when it comes to the huge customer base … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS We use both Oracle Dyn Managed DNS and Amazon Route 53. We like having our main DNS provider outside our cloud provider in case there's an issue with Amazon and we need to point things somewhere else temporarily. But for all the smaller stuff and internal stuff, we use Route 53 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is trusted, tested, proven and widely used. This is the winning factor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS We selected it for stability. It has a way better UI than UltraDNS. Oracle Dyn has a clear user interface without bloatware, and the actions don't surprise you. Route 53 - Their main benefit is the integration with the rest of the Amazon Web Services suite, something other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS It is just as powerful, but it lacks the AWS features that Route 53 has. But, that isn't something that Oracle Dyn Managed DNS can control. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is not keeping up with the alternatives. We would not select them in today's environment. Incentivized Helpful? Fil Baumanis Lead TechOps Engineer in Engineering at Recruitics (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Simpler pricing and config than R53, and better support. Significantly ess expensive than UltraDNS. Incentivized Helpful? Austin Montgomery Director, Reliability Engineering in Engineering at Sovrn Holdings, Inc. (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Dyn has been or provider for many years but as we shift our business into AWS route 53 has become a contender for our DNS solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Route53 was too heavy for GC and we had no other AWS products to integrate with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Route 53 costs a fraction of DYN. We have been forced to use Route 53 as an additional DNS provider as a risk treatment following a major outage at DYN. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Dyn provided faster lookup times or more granular georouting than the other providers, also previous experience with Dyn in emergency situation make us appreciate their quick response times. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Dyn DNS has a lovely simple zone-transfer / DNS response stack that I trust, very fast propagation and has proven a reliable stack. Dyn is also very cost competitive compared to some of their peers. Others we examined had interesting features, but the gap to migrate from a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Both Route 53 and Google Cloud DNS provide the ability to create zone files internal to the VPC which unfortunately Oracle Dyn Managed DNS doesn't do. That being said, other than this use case, having Oracle Dyn Managed DNS allows us to be able to have a heterogeneous … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Dyn leads in most parts of the evaluation and lead the advanced features part we needed Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS We've been using Dyn for many years and decided to stick with it as it works well. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Amazon Route 53	Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (25 ratings)	8.5 (103 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (5 ratings)	8.6 (101 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (6 ratings)	8.6 (99 ratings)