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.<p>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.):<p><a href="http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2012/08/comparison-and-analysis-of-managed-dns.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2012/08/comparison-and-analysis...</a>
More details can be found in my blog post at <a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/02/create-a-backup-website-using-route-53-dns-failover-and-s3-website-hosting.html" rel="nofollow">http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/02/create-a-backup-website-u...</a> .
isn't this offering cannibalizing AWS load balancers? if I have a set of web servers with a load balancer at front and health checks that takes unhealthy nodes out of rotation, isn't it cheaper now to just use this DNS fail-over?<p><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/elasticloadbalancing/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/elasticloadbalancing/</a>
<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/</a>
We use DNS Made Easy but and are happy with them. However, for our level of DNS queries per month - e.g. over 50million Route 53 would give us some significant cost savings.<p>Do you guys know whether Route 53 offers templating mechanism? e.g. setup 1 template and apply to 50 different domains?
Route 53 is slow ( For a paid solution ). At least when i tested it. It you are doing to use a Third Party DNS that you paid you are either going with the best ones or ones that are good enough like OnApp Anycast DNS.