Azure DNS vs. Google Cloud DNS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure DNS
Score 9.0 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
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Community Pulse
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Considered Both Products
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 …
Google Cloud DNS
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 …
Top Pros
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Best Alternatives
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Small Businesses
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 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
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(8 ratings)
9.0
(12 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure DNSGoogle Cloud DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
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
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
Microsoft
  • The Azure Private DNS has an option for automatic mapping which creates a DNS record automatically for all the resources in a particular Vnet, and adds new DNS entries for whenever a new resource is created.
  • The DNS entries can be shared between different VNets automatically and there is no need for manually populating it or syncing it with different networks.
  • The mapping or records is very easy as the target/source/backend is automatically populated and there is no need to keep those IP addresses handy instead you can map them using their name.
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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
Microsoft
  • Provides Name Resolutions using Microsoft Infrastructure
  • Not required to manage server to run this Azure Service
  • Simple DNS queries and fast apply
  • Secure & High Available
  • Custom DNS quires can possible . No complex policies
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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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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
Microsoft
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 comfortable. Also, they are a big and known brand, which makes us more at ease with our choice
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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
Microsoft
  • since Azure DNS belongs to Azure Cloud environment, there is no positive impact
  • since Azure DNS belongs to Azure Cloud environment, there is no negative impact
  • there would be a negative impact if Azure DNS would be missing
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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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