Replaces Amazon Route 53
European alternatives to Amazon Route 53
Managed authoritative DNS from European operators
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Amazon Route 53 is the managed DNS service of Amazon Web Services. It hosts your authoritative zones on a global anycast network and adds routing logic on top: health checks with failover, latency and geography based answers, weighted records and DNSSEC signing. Because it plugs straight into the rest of AWS, teams already running workloads there tend to let it handle domain registration and record management as well.
DNS is the switch that decides where every request for your domain goes, so many organisations want that control and the contract inside their own jurisdiction. Picking a European alternative to Amazon Route 53 also unties your zones from a single US cloud account. ClouDNS and RcodeZero offer managed authoritative DNS with anycast serving, deSEC focuses on an open and API driven approach, and Bunny DNS sits alongside Bunny CDN if you want delivery and DNS from one supplier.
European options 10
Our pick
ClouDNS
Managed DNS from Bulgaria
ClouDNS is a managed DNS provider from Bulgaria. Beyond hosting zones it offers DNS failover, DNSSEC, GeoDNS for answering according to the visitor's location, and DDoS protection for the name servers themselves.
BulgariaFree plan
Bunny DNS
Managed DNS from Slovenia
Slovenia
Bunny CDN
Content delivery network from Slovenia
Slovenia
RcodeZero
Managed DNS from Austria
AustriaEU hosted
DNScale
Managed anycast DNS from Estonia
EstoniaEU hostedFree plan
Nanelo
Managed DNS provider from Germany
GermanyEU hosted♻
deSEC
Free nonprofit managed DNS from Germany
GermanyOpen sourceFree plan
Scaleway DNS
Managed DNS from French provider Scaleway
FranceEU hosted♻
Scaleway
Cloud computing platform from France
France♻
EuroDNS DNS
Managed DNS from Luxembourg
LuxembourgQuestions
How hard is it to migrate zones away from Route 53?
You export your records, load them into the new provider, and then repoint the nameservers at your registrar. ClouDNS, deSEC and Scaleway DNS all accept zone imports and offer APIs, so the record work can be scripted.
Do these providers support DNSSEC?
DNSSEC support is common among managed European operators, and RcodeZero and deSEC both put signing at the centre of what they do. Confirm on the provider's own page which algorithms and workflows they support for your registrar.
Can I get failover and traffic steering elsewhere?
Some of the listed operators offer health checks and geographic answers as part of their managed plans, ClouDNS and Nanelo among them. Compare the exact routing features you rely on today before you move production traffic.