Akamai Edge DNS vs. Google Cloud DNS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai Edge DNS
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Akamai Edge DNS is a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.N/A
Google Cloud DNS
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Google Cloud DNS is a managed DNS service, featuring a global network of anycast servers and touting reliability, availability, and performance.N/A
Pricing
Akamai Edge DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai Edge DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Akamai Edge DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Considered Both Products
Akamai Edge DNS
Chose Akamai Edge DNS
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 …
Google Cloud DNS

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Top Pros
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Best Alternatives
Akamai Edge DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS
Score 8.9 out of 10
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Akamai Edge DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai Edge DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
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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Google
Google cloud is well suited to access and collaborate on documents where more than 2 people are required to contribute and in instances where feedback from individuals is captured on the document itself. If a team is working on an end of year report for funders, a few key members may need to finalise a report by offering suggestions that can be viewed and resolved by other team members. Housing documents on Google Cloud is the most appropriate platform I have ever used for tasks like these. If minimal collaboration needs engagement from just 2 individuals, it may be easier to simply email the information between each other, rather than using time to create a folder, ensure access control and upload the information to Google Cloud for collaborative input
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Pros
Akamai
  • DDoS protection
  • Starting place for a zero-trust network
  • Protection for dns spoofing
  • Better protection for our remote employees
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Google
  • 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
Akamai
  • Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case
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Google
  • 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
Akamai
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Google
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
Akamai
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Google
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
Akamai
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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Google
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 pricing is better, we went for it.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • 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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Google
  • 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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