Amazon Route 53: A DNS database, fast
Updated March 05, 2021

Amazon Route 53: A DNS database, fast

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Route 53

Route 53 means the automation of a lot of stuff we did manually before. It's used by our Infrastructure team and some other small teams when in development. The business problems that it solves were related to speed in new deployments of entries, change entries, set up new domains, and being faster than before.
  • 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.
  • Faster than before
  • No need to wait on the old partner to open a ticket to change
I only compared to BIND, as we intend to migrate to AWS as soon as possible.
Until today, I have never needed support to Route53 because the documentation is great. But, I have needed it for other services. And they're near perfect always. Except that they don't have Portuguese support yet and they're sometimes slow to answer (48 hours in non-critical ones, in two tickets). But usually, they're amazing!
Only rates a "9" because they changed the interface recently and I'm getting used to it. Before this change, for me it was easier to access--really easy. But you'll notice that it is easy to manage current domains, create a new DNS zone, buy a new domain, change everything inside Route 53, and really fast.

Do you think Amazon Route 53 delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Route 53's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Route 53 live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Route 53 go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Route 53 again?

Yes

Amazon Route 53 is very good if your team is big or small. For a single person to manage it, if you know what are you doing, you'll notice that it is faster than BIND to manage, for example, no need to add a serial number, and edit entries are also very fast. The only scenario where I think it's less appropriate is when you don't want to spend money dealing with DNS. But, even in that, the price of a single machine is not cheaper than to set up an AWS account and a new DNS zone.