Akamai Edge DNS vs. Azure DNS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai Edge DNS
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Akamai Edge DNS is a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.N/A
Azure DNS
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers Azure DNS, a managed network of name servers supplying availability, support for migration, and DNS security.
$0.10
per zone/per month
Pricing
Akamai Edge DNSAzure DNS
Editions & Modules
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Additional hosted DNS zones (over 25)
$0.10
per zone/per month
Additional DNS queries (over 1 billion)/month
$0.20
per million
First billion DNS queries/month
$0.40
per million
First 25 hosted DNS zones
$0.50
per zone/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai Edge DNSAzure DNS
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Akamai Edge DNSAzure DNS
User Ratings
Akamai Edge DNSAzure DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai Edge DNSAzure DNS
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited when you have a high-turnover staffing model or can't get everyone trained on security best practices. Also well suited as a starting place for getting a zero-trust network up and running. A tool like Fast DNS gives you a web based portal to see traffic analysis, too, which for us was very important.
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Using Azure DNS, you can easily and quickly deploy and manage your domain DNS. It's been an excellent introduction to our web services requirements. It offers all services on a single platform and integrates with other applications. It not only offers DNS services for websites but also for your applications.
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Pros
  • DDoS protection
  • Starting place for a zero-trust network
  • Protection for dns spoofing
  • Better protection for our remote employees
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  • User interface is easy to use
  • Detects ISP change fast
  • Easy purchase - both domain and DNS management can be bought from the same portal
  • Availability of advanced management
  • Fast and Reliable
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Cons
  • Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case
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  • The record set search can improve.
  • Azure DNS comes at an extra cost, Need to decrease some cost.
  • Better dashboard needed with all the details availability.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai wins hands down because of their distributed model (their worldwide CDN which is top notch). We've trusted them for other hosting and media distribution and it was a natural to use them for DNS. Feature wise, they are better, for our use cases, then either Google Cloud or Azure
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As we have all our infrastructure on Azure it was much more feasible for us to use Azure DNS.
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Return on Investment
  • Fast DNS is core to our protection model, so while is an IT budget line item, is used to protect the entire org.
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  • Billing in the same invoice. positive point
  • DNSSEC not yet included. negative impact for high transaction commerce websites
  • DNS SSL encryption not yet included. negative impact for high transaction pay wallet websites
  • Not required 3rd party DNS services. positive impact
  • Not required additional resource to manage these services. positive impact
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