Google Cloud DNS Advantages

Introduction

Domain Name System(DNS) is a database that maintains the name of the website and the particular IP address it links to. It’s a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network .When we type URL of some website in browser, computer knows to which Internet Protocol address of the server it needs to connect in order to obtain data for the website. It’s like a phonebook. Every single URL on the internet has a unique IP address assigned to it. The IP address belongs to the computer which is responsible for hosting the server of the website we are requesting to access. Google Cloud DNS is a high-performance, resilient, global Domain Name System (DNS) service that publishes your domain names to the global DNS in a cost-effective way.

When to use Google Cloud DNS  

DNS is a distributed database which lets youto store IP addresses and other data, and look them up by names. Google Cloud DNS lets you publish your zones and records in the DNS without the burden of managing your own DNS servers and softwares.

DNS records when we have domain, we can manage it through DNS records. DNS records have different purposes, some types of DNS records are:

• A Record - IPv4  address, maps IP of host with domain.

• CNAME - alias for one name to another (www.example.com, points to example.com)

• MX manages where emails should be delivered.

• TXT whatever text, Google use it verify that you are domain owner for example Plus many more. Domain registrars offer possibility to manage DNS records for domain

Performance and timing

Google Cloud Domain Name System uses anycast to serve your managed zones from multiple locations around the world for high availability. Requests are automatically routed to the nearest location, reducing latency .

Why Google Cloud DNS?

1. For you project you have everything in one place

2. Though managed by Google it is fast, reliable, secure

3. It’s in the same network as your servers are (either Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine), so they face smaller latency

4. Uses Anycast network addressing (requests are rooted to nearest location)

5. Possibility to manage DNS records are through Google Console , REST API , gcloud (command line interface)

6. The Price is also low i.e 0.2$/month for one zone.

Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing platform that provides infrastructure tools and services for users to build on top of.

In terms of Amazon Web Services in first place and Microsoft Azure in second Google Cloud Platform is regarded as the third biggest cloud provider.

Any organization in need of cloud computing should consider Google Cloud Platform for their needs—especially SMBs, which the platform was initially geared toward.

Google has provided documentation for getting started and a frequently asked questions page for developers and IT leaders to investigate the platform.