AWS Route 53 vs Azure DNS

AWS Route 53 is used by more websites in our catalog: 56,191 use AWS Route 53 and 7,583 use Azure DNS.

Azure DNS sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS Route 53: 51, Azure DNS: 54).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS Route 53 went from 7.9% to 6.4% of all tracked sites, while Azure DNS went from 1.1% to 0.86%. Azure DNS is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so AWS Route 53 and Azure DNS 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.