AWS Route 53 vs Google Cloud DNS

AWS Route 53 is used by more websites in our catalog: 56,191 use AWS Route 53 and 30,888 use Google Cloud DNS.

AWS Route 53 sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS Route 53: 51, Google Cloud DNS: 13).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS Route 53 went from 7.9% to 6.4% of all tracked sites, while Google Cloud DNS went from 4.1% to 3.5%. Google Cloud DNS is gaining ground faster in our index.

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