Highly available, solid solution for DNS management
April 06, 2019
Highly available, solid solution for DNS management
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Route 53
Route 53 provides a nice centralized location for managing our domains. It makes it easy to assign DNS records to various AWS instances, elastic load balancers or aliases to other servers not located inside AWS infrastructure. Route 53 has had great availability and ensured our DNS setup is relatively painless and not needing concern.
- 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.
- Kept our domains running, no issues with downtime or affecting our end customers.
- Enabled us to save time running static websites via routing a domain to an S3 Bucket.
- With various time to live settings, we're able to make DNS changes and have them go live pretty quickly.
Route 53 is head and shoulders above GoDaddy. GoDaddy's DNS availability was problematic with us earlier on and at that time we made a decision to move our domains to Route 53 under Amazon. Since then we haven't experienced any DNS outages and it has been pretty rock solid. That wasn't the case when we were using GoDaddy.