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Always available DNS with a 100% uptime SLA: Powerful, reliable, scalable DNS capabilities without the overhead of custom-built infrastructure, while simplifying DNS management. Add data-driven DNS traffic steering to optimize traffic flows between CDNs and cloud providers and seamless API First DevOps ready integrations.
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IBM NS1 Connect Managed DNS is a fully managed, cloud-native DNS and intelligent traffic steering solution designed to help AWS customers overcome the limitations of legacy DNS. By integrating with observability tools like Amazon CloudWatch, NS1 Connect can monitor the health and status of cloud resources in real time, enabling automated traffic steering away from down or deprecated infrastructure. Combined with NS1s ability to ingest data from a variety of sources, this ensures faster, more reliable DNS resolution, reduces application downtime, improves performance, and accelerates time-to-value, freeing teams to focus on strategic growth.
The Essentials Tier is ideal for SMBs, providing up to 80M queries/month, health checks, intelligent traffic steering, HTTPS redirects with primary/secondary DNS support ensuring high application availability and robust business continuity.
The Standard Tier expands these capabilities for larger organizations providing advanced features like spike protection and zone backup/restore while supporting up to 1 billion queries per month, enhanced health monitoring, traffic steering filter chains and HTTPS redirects.
For enterprises demanding peak performance and resilience on a global scale, IBM NS1 Connect Premium is our most advanced solution, tailored and optimized for your needs. Overcome the limitations of single-CDN (SCD) architectures with Real User Monitoring (RUM) based traffic steering, dynamically routing users to the fastest, most reliable endpoints. Further enhance your capabilities with dedicated DNS infrastructure, advanced analytics, and optimized DNS for China. Contact your AWS representative who will work with our expert to ensure you have the optimum solution to meet your needs.
Highlights
- Global anycast network: Primary and secondary DNS built with a fully redundant architecture at 26 locations to meet a 100% uptime SLA.
- Intelligent Traffic steering: Automatically steer traffic across multiple CDNs and cloud providers to optimize for cost, contractual commits, and third-party quality of experience (QoE) metrics.
- API-first Architecture: DevOps ready integrations with Terraform, Ansible and other tools for effortless zone creation and policy updates.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Essentials | Includes 30M queries 1000 records 1 Filter Chain 2 Monitors | $1,188.00 |
Essentials Small Bundle | Includes 50M queries 1000 records 1 Filter Chain 2 Monitors | $2,388.00 |
Essentials Large Bundle | Includes 80M queries 1000 records 1 Filter Chain 2 Monitors | $4,188.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
Overage Rate Total Queries (Requests) | $50.00 |
Overage Rate DNS Records | $75.00 |
Overage Rate Filter Chains (Resource Units) | $103.50 |
Overage Rate Monitors (Jobs) | $3.45 |
Overage Rate China Requests | $172.00 |
Steering Standard Interaction Overage | $20.39 |
GSLB Standard Interaction Overage | $20.39 |
Steering Advanced Interaction Overage | $32.39 |
GSLB Advanced Interaction Overage | $32.39 |
Enterprise Request Overage | $8.27 |
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Global Network Infrastructure
Fully redundant DNS architecture deployed across 26 global anycast network locations
Traffic Routing Intelligence
Automated traffic steering across multiple CDNs and cloud providers using dynamic routing algorithms
Observability Integration
Real-time cloud resource health monitoring through integration with observability platforms like Amazon CloudWatch
DevOps Automation
API-first architecture supporting infrastructure-as-code integrations with Terraform, Ansible, and similar deployment tools
Health Monitoring Capabilities
Advanced health check mechanisms enabling automated traffic redirection from degraded or non-functional infrastructure endpoints
Cloud Networking
Provides comprehensive networking and security service for public and private clouds with complete orchestration and automation of transit gateway and inter-cloud connectivity
Application Security
Offers web application and API protection with industry-leading web application firewall, bot protection, L3-L7 DDoS defense, and API security capabilities
AI Data Management
Enables faster collaboration, model development, and deployment through automated control, management, and maintenance of thousands of machine learning models
Edge Computing
Hosts containerized application workloads at regional edge locations for improved performance and scalability without requiring server infrastructure
Multi-Cloud Connectivity
Supports proxy-based architecture for advertising applications and APIs across different cloud environments using Kubernetes controller and granular traffic segmentation
DNS Policy Management
Supports advanced DNS policies including query resolution, recursion, zone transfer, and traffic management
Zone Configuration
Enables setup of primary, secondary, Active Directory integrated, and stub DNS zones
IPv6 Support
Provides native IPv6 root hints configuration for modern network environments
Authentication Mechanism
Implements DNS Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) for enhanced security
PowerShell Integration
Offers extended Windows PowerShell support for DNS server administration and configuration
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sebastian g.
it has been a very didactic conference
Reviewed on Oct 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
help us with the administration of the distribution
What do you dislike about the product?
the system that is used is very didactic thanks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we learn a little bit of everything
Syed A.
IBM NS1 Connect
Reviewed on Jul 29, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM NS1 Connect offers fast, reliable DNS with intelligent traffic steering, real-time updates, and easy API integration for better performance and uptime.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't find any negative about this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM NS1 Connect solves DNS latency, downtime, and static routing issues by providing fast, intelligent, and automated DNS traffic steering—improving reliability, performance, and user experience.
Computer Software
Great analytics and visibility with IBM NS1 Connect
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The clean and well-designed dashboard is my favorite feature. All types of query logs, real-time traffic & performance information are shown in it at a glance. It helps to pinpoint trouble spots quickly and grasp general trends too. Its analytics, all fairly comprehensive yet easy to manage are now invaluable in dealing with complex DNS configurations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the interface can be a bit slow to load data-heavy reports. A mobile-friendly view could also make quick checks easier when you're not at a desk.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the problems of latency and failover with fast response times around the world. If traffic spikes happen, their managed DNS service can still keep things smooth and steady. That has increased uptime considerably: no need for as much manual intervention; easier solving when something goes wrong.
Debash B.
IBM NS1 Connect Review
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how reliable and fast the DNS performance is. It’s easy to manage and very responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can be a bit complex at first, and some advanced features take time to fully understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s helping us improve DNS reliability and performance, which means faster load times and less downtime for our users. It also makes traffic management much easier.
MANDARA S.
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Reviewed on Jul 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Fast reliable, routing features, optimize traffic management
What do you dislike about the product?
Less docs for beginners, and advance features should include guide for better usage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping me learn routing for one of my project.