Amazon Cognito vs Google Cloud DNS

Overview

Google Cloud DNS

Stacks2.4K

Followers572

Votes44

Amazon Cognito

Stacks616

Followers917

Votes34

Amazon Cognito vs Google Cloud DNS: What are the differences?

Amazon Cognito: Securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline; Google Cloud DNS: Reliable, resilient, low-latency DNS serving from Google’s worldwide network of Anycast DNS servers. Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.

Amazon Cognito and Google Cloud DNS are primarily classified as "User Management and Authentication" and "DNS Management" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Amazon Cognito are:

Manage Unique Identities
Work Offline
Store and Sync across Devices

On the other hand, Google Cloud DNS provides the following key features:

High performance, reliable DNS service
Easy to use, customizable to your needs
Manage records for all your services

"Backed by Amazon" is the top reason why over 11 developers like Amazon Cognito, while over 6 developers mention "Backed by Google" as the leading cause for choosing Google Cloud DNS.

According to the StackShare community, Amazon Cognito has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud DNS, which is listed in 30 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Advice on Google Cloud DNS, Amazon Cognito

Brent

CEO at DEFY Labs

Mar 7, 2020

Decided

I started our team on Amazon Cognito because I was a Solutions Architect at AWS and found it really easy to follow the tutorials and get a basic app up and running with it.

When our team started working with it, they very quickly became frustrated because of the poor documentation. After 4 days of trying to get all the basic passwordless auth working, our lead engineer made the decision to abandon it and try Auth0... and managed to get everything implemented in 4 hours.

The consensus was that Cognito just isn't mature enough or well-documented, and that the implementation does not cater for real world use cases the way that it should. I believe Amplify has made some of this simpler, but I would still recommend Auth0 as it's been bulletproof for us, and is a sensible price.

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Eric

Service Engineer at Zix Corporation

Aug 5, 2020

Needs adviceon

Amazon Route 53

We are looking for advice / best-practices / caveats about migrating off BIND on to Unbound https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/ for internal & external (customer-facing) DNS. Is unbound suitable for this, or is it only recommended for caching? How easy or difficult is it to move 10000's of existing BIND DNS zone entries? We already use Amazon Route 53 for our AWS instances and Cloud DNS for our GCP ones, but would like to maintain internal DNS for cost, control, and latency reasons.

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Detailed Comparison

Google Cloud DNS	Amazon Cognito
Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.	You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.
High performance, reliable DNS service;Easy to use, customizable to your needs;Manage records for all your services	Manage Unique Identities;Work Offline;Store and Sync across Devices;Seamless Guest Access;Safeguard AWS Credentials;Control Access to AWS Resources
Statistics
Stacks 2.4K	Stacks 616
Followers 572	Followers 917
Votes 44	Votes 34
Pros & Cons
Pros 9 Backed by Google 7 High-availability 6 Reliable 5 High volume 5 Anycast DNS servers Cons 4 Lack of privacy 2 Backed by Google	Pros 14 Backed by Amazon 7 Manage Unique Identities 4 Work Offline 3 MFA 2 Store and Sync Cons 4 Massive Pain to get working 3 Documentation often out of date 2 Login-UI sparsely customizable (e.g. no translation) 1 Different Language SDKs not compatible 1 No recovery codes for MFA

What are some alternatives to Google Cloud DNS, Amazon Cognito?

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) – such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, or an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket – and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.

Auth0

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Keycloak

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

DNSimple

DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains. We offer both a carefully crafted web interface for managing your domains and DNS records, as well as an HTTP API with various code libraries and tools. Buy, connect, operate!

Devise

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

Firebase Authentication

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,

Dyn

An all-in-one Managed DNS service for your registered domain names. Dyn DNS is the perfect solution for your domain name’s DNS needs, whether it is for personal or business use. It gives you complete control over your DNS zone and its associated DNS records, complete with a simple DNS management web interface.

WorkOS

Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC, and is a world leader in providing global IP Anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy is currently ranked the fastest provider for 8 consecutive months and the most reliable provider.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Amazon Cognito are:

Manage Unique Identities
Work Offline
Store and Sync across Devices

On the other hand, Google Cloud DNS provides the following key features:

High performance, reliable DNS service
Easy to use, customizable to your needs
Manage records for all your services

"Backed by Amazon" is the top reason why over 11 developers like Amazon Cognito, while over 6 developers mention "Backed by Google" as the leading cause for choosing Google Cloud DNS.

Amazon Cognito vs Google Cloud DNS