Akamai Edge DNS vs. IBM NS1 Connect

Akamai Edge DNS

Akamai Edge DNS

6 Reviews and Ratings

IBM NS1 Connect

IBM NS1 Connect

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai Edge DNS	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Edge DNS is a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.	N/A
IBM NS1 Connect	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	IBM NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS and traffic steering designed to improve application performance and network resilience.	N/A

Pricing

Akamai Edge DNS

IBM NS1 Connect

Editions & Modules

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Pricing Offerings
Akamai Edge DNS	IBM NS1 Connect
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Akamai Edge DNS	IBM NS1 Connect
Top Pros	Pro Ddos protection Pro Remote employees	Pro Party service Pro Cloud provider Pro Customer focused
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus New release Minus Customer support

Best Alternatives
	Akamai Edge DNS	IBM NS1 Connect
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	Google Cloud DNS Score 9.0 out of 10	Google Cloud DNS Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Akamai Edge DNS	IBM NS1 Connect
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai Edge DNS	IBM NS1 Connect
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM NS1 is well suited for large/mid-enterprise customers that really care about the reliability of the overall infrastructure, enhanced end-user application experience, and security. Less appropriate for small-scale enterprise customers Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Akamai DDoS protection Starting place for a zero-trust network Protection for dns spoofing Better protection for our remote employees Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Dedicated DNS Specialized routing for mainland China redundant failover system Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Akamai Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Support for Terraform integration is great with NS1. NS1 has Easy to use UX interface. Logically laid out and solid API interface with through documentation Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Enhanced end-user experience as a result of better performance & uptime Easy management - resulting in cutting down in operations cost Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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