Akamai vs AWS Route 53

AWS Route 53 is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 56,191 use AWS Route 53.

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, AWS Route 53: 51).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while AWS Route 53 went from 7.9% to 6.4%. Akamai is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Akamai and AWS Route 53 are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.