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    Azure Traffic Manager

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS layer to quickly and efficiently direct incoming DNS requests based on the routing method of your choice.N/A

    Google Cloud DNS

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud DNS is a managed DNS service, featuring a global network of anycast servers and touting reliability, availability, and performance.N/A
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    Azure Traffic ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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    Azure Traffic ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Traffic ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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    Best Alternatives
    Azure Traffic ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
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    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Azure DNS
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Traffic ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.4
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Traffic ManagerGoogle Cloud DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Traffic Manager is a great product, if you have multiple sites hosting similar services (Primary and DR), and you want to ensure that users are directed to the DR in case of a primary datacenter failure, [Azure] Traffic Manager does this very nicely. If you have a service hosted across multiple regions/datacenters and you want to balance the inbound load between the regions, [Azure] Traffic Manager does this very well, of course such scenario would require a database replication or something like Cosmos-DB in the backend [Azure Traffic Manager] is also well suited for inbound traffic with multiple IPs, you can fail-over traffic from one inbound IP to another based on its availability, or if you have multiple internet connections that you want to balance the load across, it does this pretty nicely too.
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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
    • Performance DNS Load Balancing for Lowest Latency Endpoint to Clients
    • Priority-Based DNS Load Balancing to ensure maximum up time for a service
    • Geographic-based DNS Load Balancing to force certain clients in certain regions to connect to specific endpoints
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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
    • Traffic View is a great feature, but doesn't work very well, sometimes it gets stuck and stops loading traffic view data
    • Automatic probing for endpoints sometimes gets stuck too, I would recommend a technique to test the endpoint in real time from Azure Portal
    • Traffic View heatmap is buggy and doesn't point correctly to locations
    • Traffic View portal doesn't show source countries (Shows coordinates) it would be much more helpful to have coordinates auto-translated to geolocations/countries
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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
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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
    Microsoft
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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
    Microsoft
    Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow does what [Azure] Traffic Manager does, however, in Azure Configuration is separated between Azure DNS Zones (For DNS Zone Management) and [Azure] Traffic Manager for DNS Traffic Management and Load Balancing, Route 53 in a unified product for DNS Traffic Management using Traffic Flow and DNS Zone Management. Route 53 does a great job, however, we found it to be a little bit more complex to setup than [Azure] Traffic Manager, Setting up traffic manager is pretty easy even for the first time, and getting the best out of it is relatively simple.
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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
    • Service cost is exceptionally low
    • Overall, this product saves a lot of money for the value it provides and it isn't expensive
    • It's around half a dollar per million queries, which is truly peanuts, extras may be required if you do advanced configuration
    • I can't see any reason why any business wouldn't be using this product, very low investment for a very high return and savings
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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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