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Amazon Route53 provides high availability at reasonable costs.
January 12, 2023

Amazon Route53 provides high availability at reasonable costs.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Route 53

We use AWS Route 53 as the DNS management solution for ~12 years. We have over 800+ domain entries being managed over there. These include the tools as below:
  1. API Endpoints that process over 100M API calls a day.
  2. Web-Portal for configuration management used by 20K business users.
  3. Web-hooks exposed to the external world for sending DLR notifications for the marketing messages that we send out (>100M messages per day).
  • 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.
  • Availability - we need very high availability given the enterprise customers we work with.
  • API Access - gives us a high degree of programmatic access and integration with Terraform.
  • Integration with the other AWS services, and ability to manage internal and external networks from a single console.
  • High uptime lead to stable infrastructure and hence a higher customer NPS.
  • By configuring the right network topologies internally we can build a highly secure network.
  • The global presence and POP's allow us to serve traffic from 30+ countries with low latencies.
Cloudflare is also similar in the features to Route 53. However, since we are completely hosted on the AWS cloud, we can't use Cloudflare for configuring our internal networks, and integrating with the other services. The API based integration of AWS via Terraform is another factor that allows us to automate most of our deployments and manage them programmatically.

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

Services needed high availability - It's always available (nearly). Haven't had too many major outages in the last 12 years. Working with Infrastructure as a Code platforms - Great API support that makes is easier to work with external infra management tools. Auto-Failover, and Advanced Routing - Good support for failovers and routing policies that can be mixed and matched. Different Network topologies - You can create internal VPC's and external look-ups seamlessly using the same set of tools.