AWS Cloud Map vs. SkyDNS
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | AWS Cloud Map | SkyDNS |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| Review count | 57 | 15 |
| Ease of use | 8.5 | 7.7 |
| Ease of setup | 8.2 | 7.9 |
| Quality of support | 8.6 | 7.9 |
| Meets requirements | 8.8 | 8.9 |
| NPS | 60.714286 | 21.428571 |
| Small Business | 40.4% | 53.3% |
| Mid-Market | 35.1% | 40.0% |
| Enterprise | 24.6% | 6.7% |
| Total page views | 108 | 20 |
| Total LLM citations | 95 | 7 |
AWS Cloud Map
AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discovers the most up-to-date locations of its resources.
SkyDNS
SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights.