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Amazon Route 53 vs. Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Route 53

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Route 53 is a Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) offered by Amazon AWS as a reliable way to route visitors to web applications and other site traffic to locations within a company's infrastructure, which can be configured to monitor the health and performance of traffic and endpoints in the network.

    $0.40

    Per Zone Per Month

    Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Route 53Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $0.40
    Per Zone Per Month
    Queries
    $0.60
    Per Million Queries
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Route 53Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Route 53Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
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    Amazon AWS
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    As our organization had an ample amount of DNS to manage, it was quite inconvenient when it comes to Amazon Route 53 or any other alternatives as the change propagation time was pretty much high as compared to Oracle Dyn Managed DNS. And when it comes to the huge customer base …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    We use both Oracle Dyn Managed DNS and Amazon Route 53. We like having our main DNS provider outside our cloud provider in case there's an issue with Amazon and we need to point things somewhere else temporarily. But for all the smaller stuff and internal stuff, we use Route 53 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is trusted, tested, proven and widely used. This is the winning factor.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    We selected it for stability. It has a way better UI than UltraDNS. Oracle Dyn has a clear user interface without bloatware, and the actions don't surprise you.

    Route 53 - Their main benefit is the integration with the rest of the Amazon Web Services suite, something other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    It is just as powerful, but it lacks the AWS features that Route 53 has. But, that isn't something that Oracle Dyn Managed DNS can control.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is not keeping up with the alternatives. We would not select them in today's environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Simpler pricing and config than R53, and better support. Significantly ess expensive than UltraDNS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Dyn has been or provider for many years but as we shift our business into AWS route 53 has become a contender for our DNS solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Route53 was too heavy for GC and we had no other AWS products to integrate with it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Route 53 costs a fraction of DYN. We have been forced to use Route 53 as an additional DNS provider as a risk treatment following a major outage at DYN.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Dyn provided faster lookup times or more granular georouting than the other providers, also previous experience with Dyn in emergency situation make us appreciate their quick response times.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Dyn DNS has a lovely simple zone-transfer / DNS response stack that I trust, very fast propagation and has proven a reliable stack. Dyn is also very cost competitive compared to some of their peers.
    Others we examined had interesting features, but the gap to migrate from a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Both Route 53 and Google Cloud DNS provide the ability to create zone files internal to the VPC which unfortunately Oracle Dyn Managed DNS doesn't do. That being said, other than this use case, having Oracle Dyn Managed DNS allows us to be able to have a heterogeneous …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Dyn leads in most parts of the evaluation and lead the advanced features part we needed
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    We've been using Dyn for many years and decided to stick with it as it works well.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Route 53Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (25 ratings)
    8.5
    (103 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (101 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (99 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Route 53Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
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    Oracle
    Oracle managed DNS becomes very heavy when there is an ample amount of DNS being managed. However, the DNS creation and updating takes very less time to propagate and is very easy to use. So, for an organization, where there is a modest amount of DNS to manage, it works very well and gives a splendid experience. So, considering the complexity of managing the DNS for an IT company Oracle Dyn managed DNS is the best option to opt.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
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    Oracle
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • During initial setup when you are using Route 53 or DNS systems for very first time, there are little number of documentation from AWS which is kinda of little tough. But, once you get hold of it, its a cake walk for everyone.
    • Health checks are kinda of little costly when Compared to other big players, but that doesn't affect much when you compare its uses.
    • The logging is well structured though its costly
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    Oracle
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    Oracle
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Oracle
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Oracle
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
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    Oracle
    • For the law firm its being used for, it keeps their remote users working. For law firms, time is money, usually every 15 minutes lost can be a big deal to them.
    • Sometimes it has switched when its not supposed to, and causes downtime. No real way to inform users when the switch is happening, it would be great to have an email alert we can not only send to ourselves but a notification to primary and technical partners in the firm so they don't have to yell at us like something is broken, instead they are aware it had to change.
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