AWS Route 53 vs Foundation DNS

AWS Route 53 is used by more websites in our catalog: 56,191 use AWS Route 53 and 568 use Foundation DNS.

Foundation DNS sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS Route 53: 51, Foundation DNS: 64).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS Route 53 went from 7.9% to 6.4% of all tracked sites, while Foundation DNS went from 0.09% to 0.06%. Foundation DNS is gaining ground faster in our index.

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