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Google Cloud DNS

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Re: Google Cloud DNS

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Post by MBlume »

Was this announced by Google today, or is this on HN because of the XKCD? If the former, did Google push the announcement because of the XKCD?

Re: Google Cloud DNS

#12

Post by tomschlick »

nodesocket wrote: post #6

DNS is so cheap, and Amazon Route53 has such an advantage with their latency based routing, health checks, and integrations with other AWS services. Honestly zones are $0.50 and $0.50 per million queries. You have to be pushing lots of DNS queries to have costs even exceed a tiny bill of $20 a month. It is the definition of a lot of engineers hours and infrastructure costs for literally no profit for the company. How…

Hopefully the lower cost from google causes aws to drop prices for this service as well.

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Post by nodesocket »

tomschlick wrote: post #12
nodesocket wrote: post #6

DNS is so cheap, and Amazon Route53 has such an advantage with their latency based routing, health checks, and integrations with other AWS services. Honestly zones are $0.50 and $0.50 per million queries. You have to be pushing lots of DNS queries to have costs even exceed a tiny bill of $20 a month. It is the definition of a lot of engineers hours and infrastructure costs for literally no profit for the company. How…

Hopefully the lower cost from google causes aws to drop prices for this service as well.

Really, how much would you save? We we even talking dollars a month?

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Post by tedivm »

geekam wrote: post #7

Naïve question but what kind of organizations will benefit the most from this service? Or put it other way, the situations this service is needed for? Can anyone explain to me please?

The same type of people who use CDNs. If you want great performance globally it helps to have primary DNS services near by, rather than having lookups cross the world.

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Post by gtaylor »

geekam wrote: post #7

Naïve question but what kind of organizations will benefit the most from this service? Or put it other way, the situations this service is needed for? Can anyone explain to me please?

If you are using Compute Engine or App Engine, this would give you a cheap, API-driven method for managing your DNS zones, without relying on an external service (though, there is nothing wrong with doing so).

It's also likely that Google will continue to improve this service over time, so who knows what the future will hold. In the case of Amazon's Route 53, they have some really neat features for pointing alias records at S3 buckets and Load Balancers.

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Post by nodesocket »

tedivm wrote: post #10

I'm wondering how Dyn is taking this. These guys have been working on DNS for years, and were probably one of the first "managed DNS" or "enterprise DNS" services. Over time though they've failed to really innovate, or even keep up with standard (you can't use any of their value add services like the global traffic manager if you also want to use DNSSEC, for instance). Despite this their prices have remained ridiculo…

EdgeCast looks nice, but minimum of $50 a month.

http://www.edgecast.com/services/route-managed-dns/

We pay around $2 a month at Route53.

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