Route 53 is becoming a viable alternative to enterprise providers UltraDNS and Dyn. Performance is solid, but features have been lacking. This is a popular feature those providers charge $100+/mo for versus $0.75/mo on Route 53. Monitoring capabilities are limited (tcp and basic http only), but for many this is probably sufficient. DNSSEC is another feature I hope they will support in the future.
A few months back I wrote a blog post on the topic of managed DNS provider comparisons (performance, market share, price, features, network size, etc.):
Fantastic write up, I learned a few things as well! Would really like to see the updated post with CloudFlare data & anything you find with the new Route53 feature also.
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Route 53 is becoming a viable alternative to enterprise providers UltraDNS and Dyn. Performance is solid, but features have been lacking. This is a popular feature those providers charge $100+/mo for versus $0.75/mo on Route 53. Monitoring capabilities are limited (tcp and basic http only), but for many this is probably sufficient. DNSSEC is another feature I hope they will support in the future.
A few months back I wrote a blog post on the topic of managed DNS provider comparisons (performance, market share, price, features, network size, etc.):
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2012/08/comparison-and-analysis...
Read that post. So http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/global-traffic-director/ this service is zone based and not geo-ip ?
Correct - it is based on the IP anycast endpoint a resolver connects to, not the geo data associated with the resolver's IP.
Fantastic write up, I learned a few things as well! Would really like to see the updated post with CloudFlare data & anything you find with the new Route53 feature also.
Do you have any thoughts on Rackspace DNS (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/dns/)? It's free.
It is very basic - anycast endpoints in US and UK only, and no extra features like failover or geographic load balancing.
Yet. ;)