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Amazon Route 53

Overview

What is Amazon Route 53?

Amazon Route 53 is a Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) offered by Amazon AWS as a reliable way to route visitors to web applications and other site traffic to locations within a company's infrastructure, which can be configured to monitor…

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Recent Reviews

Route 53

9 out of 10
January 25, 2023
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Ease of use and management of the amazon route 53 that is our main benefit. Our current solution was not cloud based and it would affect …
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Amazon Route 53

10 out of 10
January 13, 2023
Incentivized
Highly Available, scriptable DNS zone management. We had issues with DOS on smaller providers (Ultra, Dyn) and Amazon Route 53 was able to …
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How good is Route 53?

8 out of 10
January 09, 2023
Incentivized
We use Route53 as the main domain provider in our company. Although we don't purchase the domain in there for legal reasons, we do …
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Pricing

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Standard

$0.40

Cloud
Per Zone Per Month

Queries

$0.60

Cloud
Per Million Queries

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Amazon Route 53?

Amazon Route 53 Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon Route 53 is a Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) offered by Amazon AWS as a reliable way to route visitors to web applications and other site traffic to locations within a company's infrastructure, which can be configured to monitor the health and performance of traffic and endpoints in the network.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Amazon Route 53 are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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January 25, 2023

Route 53

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It help us increase dependability by rerouting our DNS to an alternate destination if the original application endpoint becomes unavailable.
  • Amazon Route 53 on Amazon Traffic Flow directs the traffic depending on a variety of factors, including endpoint health, geographic location, and latency which we set up various traffic regulations and choose which ones to use at any given moment.
  • We can build and change traffic policies via the Route 53 interface, AWS SDKs, or the Route 53 API using the easy visual editor So, the versioning function in Traffic Flow keeps track of changes to traffic policies, allowing us to quickly roll back to a prior version through the interface or API and thus it provides flexibility.
  • more customization or interface options
  • Model registry may be not clear sometimes.
January 13, 2023

Amazon Route 53

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • API access to manage Amazon Route 53
  • Redundancy and High Availablility
  • Nice extensions (geographic resolution, aliasing)
  • As long as all Amazon Route 53 can be controlled when us-east-1 is down, I'm happy.
  • Replication lags but don't they all?
  • Diagnostics on DNS TXT validation fields like "issuewild" is suddnly necessary but was never really documented as a "change" to their requirements.
Piyush Goel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Uptime - Route53 is highly performant and available. We have had only 3-4 instances in the last 12 years when we had any downtime or outages due to Route53.
  • Extensive API layer on Route53 that allows integration with external tools and SDK's (Boto, Terraform, etc)
  • Closely integrated with the other AWS services. Makes it easy to operate the infra.
  • Importing external Zone files is tricky. Takes a bit of time to figure.
  • UI is a little slow to load when the number of entries are high (>100)
  • Can give tag based search feature to make it easier to look for the relevant entries.
  • Some common features like Logging, Health Checks can be expensive.
Rekha Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allow application traffic between different regions
  • extending domain name services from on-prem to cloud
  • DNS firewall to allow/reject traffic
  • Cross account DNS service is not available
  • DNS resolution between VNET
  • Limited visibility from observability point of view
January 09, 2023

How good is Route 53?

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integration with other AWS services
  • Fine grainded access control using IAM policies
  • Geo-routing is particularly useful when traffic is global
  • It's quite raw, and does not protect you from making mistakes
  • It can be tricky to centralize DNS management when you have multiple AWS accounts
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Host a website.
  • Quickly build a website.
  • Build a website that hosts static content and HTML5 content.
  • Good option if you're already using Amazon services.
  • The user interface on Amazon is not very convenient.
  • The handling of www redirect is not optimal.
  • Lack of HTTPS support. I'm positive it is impossible to implement.
  • No website logging support.
Bob Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Domain Name Services
  • High Availability
  • Working with AWS Services
  • Each DNS provider has its own look/feel, Route 53 does take some time to fully understand
  • Understanding which services can be referenced from Route53 in different scenarios (best practices)
  • Ability to import Zone files from other sources more easily
November 29, 2021

Powerful DNS Management

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Host DNS for domains outside our registrar.
  • Integrate with other AWS services.
  • Constantly improve on basic quality of life for people like me who manage DNS.
  • The advanced controls for editing a zone file can get a little verbose, especially when you just want to do something simple like set up a new TXT record.
  • They need to make it easier to do common tasks like setting up a DKIM record, especially given their length.
  • Some of the drop down boxes need to be set with better defaults when setting up a new zone file to make it quicker.
Gnanasekar Mani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We can purchase our domain through Route 53 and can be hosted for cheaper prices in AWS.
  • There are many number of routing policies you can go ahead with and this will come into picture when the customer satisfaction is required at most, so choose routing policy accordingly.
  • As usual health checks are part of DNS systems, this is also provided at cheaper rates when total process is done in Route 53 service.
  • It can be used as standalone application from AWS
  • During initial setup when you are using Route 53 or DNS systems for very first time, there are little number of documentation from AWS which is kinda of little tough. But, once you get hold of it, its a cake walk for everyone.
  • Health checks are kinda of little costly when Compared to other big players, but that doesn't affect much when you compare its uses.
  • The logging is well structured though its costly
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Web interface
  • The many options to set up new entries
  • Fast, really fast
  • No more editing files
  • Add not only domain zones but domain names
  • The new interface--the old one was better.
  • The import process is very good but it could connect to the current DNS server if available and import too.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's a top-notch DNS provider. Easy to use, basically free, and always online.
  • Probably one of the easiest AWS services to use and configure.
  • Particularly good at connecting DNS information with the rest of the AWS ecosystem, especially CloudFront.
  • It could provide more push-button abilities for caching and cache control, much in the way that CloudFlare does.
  • It could integrate more strongly with DNS marketplaces for purchasing and sale of domains.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • DNS server - it just works. good availability and fast propagation.
  • Simple to use.
  • Designed to work with other AWS services.
  • If you already use AWS, you have both your server/services and DNS in one place.
  • Price, it is not expensive ... but you can find some cheaper and even free DNS solutions.
  • If you use non-AWS infrastructure, Route 53 doesn't have significant advantages on other services.
  • AWS Route 53 does not support forwarding or conditional forwarding options for domains used on an on-premise network.
Kevin Van Heusen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy setup of various DNS records, TXT, SPF, and any other type needed.
  • Facilitates creating aliases between DNS records and AWS resources (Elastic load balancer, AWS instance, etc).
  • Bulletproof and highly available, rare to run into issues with DNS lookup.
  • Would be nice if Amazon provided some troubleshooting capabilities or for a given domain run through some checks (MX record setup, etc).
  • Some of the UI could be improved when setting values for things like TXT records which aren't well described in the Route 53 interface.
  • Would be helpful to have an alternate view of Hosted zones and the records within. Sorting by recordset type helps but with many records for a given zone you can get lost.
Dylan Cauwels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Route53's UI is quite simple and can be understood and manipulated within minutes of introduction.
  • Route53 is globally scalable and customizable, allowing you to set intuitive fail overs and routing based on latency, location, random, or set policies.
  • With AWS-hosted infrastructure, Route53 allows for a special set of alias records with extended privileges to simplify your DNS solution.
  • With non-AWS infrastructure, you're limited to simple DNS records and a restricted set of features compare to AWS deployments.
  • Route53 does cost more than competitors such as Namecheap or GoDaddy, making it a poor choice if used with infrastructure not hosted on AWS.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Distributed servers around the world. AWS handles this automatically, distributing DNS records to geographically diverse locations.
  • Simple, intuitive interface. Route 53 provides a web-based portal for viewing and modifying DNS records.
  • API services. Route 53 provides a robust API for accessing and manipulating DNS entries.
  • Integration with other AWS services. If you're using other AWS services, Route 53 integrates directly, allowing for aliases and load balancing.
  • Bulk entry of DNS records via the web interface can be difficult. Records are required to be in BIND format and can only be imported into an empty zone. Once records exist, you can no longer import in bulk via the web interface.
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