AWS Route 53 vs Google Cloud DNS
No leader: the top candidate AWS Route 53 has only 0.29 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
AWS Route 53
A managed DNS service that translates domain names to IP addresses and intelligently directs user traffic across global infrastructure. Includes domain registration, health monitoring, and policy-based routing for optimizing application availability and performance.
Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS is a managed domain name service that uses a worldwide network of anycast servers to resolve DNS queries reliably. It supports domain registration through Cloud Domains and integrates with Google Cloud services like Kubernetes Engine for cloud-native DNS management.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
AWS Route 53
From $0.50/hosted zone/month (first 25) or $0.10/additional; plus per-query charges ($0.40–$0.80 per million depending on region/query type); health checks $0.50–$1.00/month; domain registration annual pricing.
Google Cloud DNS
Free $300 credit for new customers; Cloud Domains registration (.com/.net) starts at $12; Cloud DNS pricing based on volume
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
AWS Route 53
- Elastic Load Balancers
- CloudFront
- Elastic Beanstalk
- API Gateway
- VPC Endpoints
- S3 (website endpoints)
- AppRunner
- AppSync
- OpenSearch
- Global Accelerator
Google Cloud DNS
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Cloud Domains
- Cloud IAM
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.