Amazon Route53 is a solid choice: Reliable, cost-effective, and integrates well with other AWS services
January 17, 2023

Amazon Route53 is a solid choice: Reliable, cost-effective, and integrates well with other AWS services

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Route 53

We use Amazon Route 53 to provide public DNS services for several domains for our public websites, remote access with health checks, and for other common services. We needed a global and reliable provider that had a lot of functionality and could work well with our public website, which is also hosted on AWS.
  • Reliable
  • Cost effective
  • Integrates with other AWS services
  • Flexibility
  • Usability
  • Reliable
  • Cost effective
  • Integrates with other AWS services
  • Positive ROI given it is fairly inexpensive and provides an important DNS role for our firm
We purchased our domain names through Networksolutions.com and do rely on their DNS services for basic functionality (SPF hard reject records, etc.), since it was included at no cost; however, for our main domains, we utilize Route 53 because of AWS's high availability, reasonable cost, and capabilities to integrate with EC2 and other security certificate services to make hosting on AWS simple. We also front-end some of our sites with Cloudflare and while it's not as streamlined as using AWS natively, it does a good job.

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

Great for customers who have a decent understanding of how DNS works and need a global & reliable service. Also helpful for customers looking for an integrated solution that can pair well with other AWS services, such as EC2 for website hosting. Not as good for customers that want an extremely simple, plug and play solution (don't get me wrong though, Route53 isn't SO difficult).