Name: Akamai Edge DNS
Rating: 9.2 (6 reviews)
Author: Akamai

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If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform.

Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward – enabling you to embrace trends like cloud, mobile and media, while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.

Customers trust our cloud platform to securely deliver high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere. Reaching globally and delivers locally, The Akamai Intelligent Platform™, provides customers with unmatched reliability, security, and visibility into their online businesses.

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Managed DNS Services

We use Akamai DNS across the whole organization as a front-line protection tool. Our business operates with a few different brands and with a high turnover in staff/drivers. Making sure anyone on the network was protected was important to us. The DNS service gave us protection mainly for DDoS. It also offered us a starting point towards building out a zero-trust network.<br>

Product Usage

We use Akamai DNS across the whole organization as a front-line protection tool. Our business operates with a few different brands and with a high turnover in staff/drivers. Making sure anyone on the network was protected was important to us. The DNS service gave us protection mainly for DDoS. It also offered us a starting point towards building out a zero-trust network.

Pros and Cons

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

Things done well

Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case

Things done poorly

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.

DDoS protection
Cost model
DNSSEC preventing attacks

Most Important Features 3.4.21

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

Return on Investment

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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Akamai Edge DNS

Overview

What is Akamai Edge DNS?

Serves our use-cases very well and keeps our high-turnover staff protected

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Akamai Edge DNS

What is Akamai Edge DNS?

Entry-level set up fee?

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Alternatives Pricing

Amazon Route 53

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Azure DNS

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What is Akamai Edge DNS?

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Amazon Route 53

Azure DNS

Cloudflare

Entrust Standard SSL Certificates

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne)

Cisco Umbrella

AWS Certificate Manager

Vercara UltraDNS

F5 BIG-IP DNS

Google Cloud DNS

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