Akamai Edge DNS vs. F5 BIG-IP DNS

Well suited when you have a high-turnover staffing model or can't get everyone trained on security best practices. Also well suited as a starting place for getting a zero-trust network up and running. A tool like Fast DNS gives you a web based portal to see traffic analysis, too, which for us was very important.

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F5 BIG-IP DNS is well-suited for any organization looking to improve their Authoritative and Local DNS security and performance capabilities.

Incentivized

• DDoS protection
• Starting place for a zero-trust network
• Protection for dns spoofing
• Better protection for our remote employees

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• The easy of importing DNS records into the BIG-IP
• The ease of searching and locating records
• The speed of creating multiple records when you need to duplicate effort.
• The DNS dashboards to see requests and data points.

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• Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case

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• More support documentation will be a nice to have.
• I have not automated DNS deployments yet, but it would be nice to have ansible libraries for this module. (I have used ansible for many others).

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Akamai wins hands down because of their distributed model (their worldwide CDN which is top notch). We've trusted them for other hosting and media distribution and it was a natural to use them for DNS. Feature wise, they are better, for our use cases, then either Google Cloud or Azure

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F5 DNS is like DNS with out training wheels and data that can help you make real changes and improvements

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• Fast DNS is core to our protection model, so while is an IT budget line item, is used to protect the entire org.

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• Protection against security threats using DNS as a vector.
• Protection against security threats targeting DNS itself.
• Provide top user experience to application clients, by directing their requests to where they will be treated with the best performance.

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