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Amazon Route 53 vs Google Domains: What are the differences?
What is Amazon Route 53? A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. 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.
What is Google Domains? *A domain registration service *. It is a domain registration service which includes top website builders. The privacy is included at no additional cost. It also includes simple domain management tools.
Amazon Route 53 can be classified as a tool in the "DNS Management" category, while Google Domains is grouped under "Domain Registration".
According to the StackShare community, Amazon Route 53 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1420 company stacks & 482 developers stacks; compared to Google Domains, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Amazon Route 53
- High-availability185
- Simple148
- Backed by amazon103
- Fast76
- Auhtoritive dns servers are spread over different tlds54
- One stop solution for all our cloud needs29
- Easy setup and monitoring26
- Low-latency20
- Flexible17
- Secure15
- API available3
- Dynamically setup new clients1
- Easily add client DNS entries.1
Pros of Google Domains
- Minimalist Design2
- Great support1
- Easy website builder integration1
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Cons of Amazon Route 53
- SLOW2
- Geo-based routing only works with AWS zones2
- Restrictive rate limit1
Cons of Google Domains
- It takes long time for DNS propagation1