Turn DNS into a real-time traffic control plane with a 100% SLA
Overview
Intelligent DNS for real-time traffic control
IBM® NS1 Connect® transforms DNS into a decision layer that routes users to the best endpoint based on real-time performance, availability and geography.
Powered by a global anycast network and intelligent traffic steering, it helps you prevent outages, optimize latency and stay in control with API-first automation.
Features
Make smarter traffic decisions in real time
IBM® NS1 Connect® goes beyond basic DNS resolution and uses intelligent DNS to make real-time routing decisions by using performance data, health signals and intelligent policies. Improve uptime, reduce latency and automate traffic control across your infrastructure.
Route users to the nearest and best performing endpoint by using a globally distributed anycast network.
- Reduce latency worldwide with 26+ points of presence across six continents
- Ensure high availability by routing queries to the closest healthy location
- Handle traffic spikes automatically with globally distributed capacity
Manage DNS through APIs and infrastructure-as-code so your team can ship faster, reduce manual work and keep changes consistent
- Integrate with Terraform®, Ansible® and CI/CD workflows to automate zone creation and policy updates
- Reduce manual changes and deployment risk with repeatable, API-driven provisioning
- Push DNS updates in real time with consistent, reliable deployments
- Scale operations across teams with workflows that fit your DevOps environment
- Give application teams controlled access through custom tooling and delegated management
Maintain authoritative DNS availability during volumetric DNS DDoS attacks with a resilient global Anycast network designed to keep DNS services available even during large-scale attacks.
- Global Anycast architecture distributes DNS traffic across a resilient network
- Built to maintain authoritative DNS availability during volumetric DNS attacks
- Helps keep applications reachable even when DNS infrastructure is targeted
Automatically manage HTTPS redirects and certificates so your traffic stays secure without manual setup or maintenance.
- Redirect traffic securely with DNS-integrated HTTPS forwarding
- Manage certificates automatically without manual configuration
- Eliminate renewal expense with automated certificate updates
- Maintain a consistent user experience across domains and redirects
Automatically prevent downtime: Combine real-time health checks with intelligent traffic steering to keep applications available without manual intervention.
- Track endpoint health in real time with flexible monitoring checks
- Alert your team instantly when performance degrades or outages occur
- Automatically shift traffic to healthy endpoints by using built-in traffic steering
Use cases
What you can do with NS1 Connect
- Multi-CDN steering
- Network uptime monitoring
- Global server load balancing
- DNS observability
Route traffic across CDNs in real time
Automatically direct users to the fastest and most reliable CDN based on real-time performance and availability. Reduce latency, avoid outages and optimize delivery without manual traffic management.
Detect failures and reroute traffic instantly
Keep applications available by continuously monitoring endpoint health and automatically routing traffic to healthy destinations. NS1 helps you prevent outages before users are impacted—without manual intervention.
Route users to the best endpoint in real time
Use intelligent traffic steering to direct users based on performance, availability and location. Combine real-time data, load balancing and multi-CDN routing to deliver fast, reliable experiences everywhere.
Understand and control DNS performance in real time
Get real-time visibility into DNS performance, health and traffic patterns so you can quickly detect issues and make informed routing decisions. Diagnose problems faster, reduce downtime and improve reliability across your infrastructure.
Interactive demo
Case studies
Real clients. Real results.
Netlify powering AI-native apps with intelligent DNS
Enables organizations to optimize performance with intelligent traffic steering, real-time routing and scalable DNS for modern distributed environments.
60M+
apps supported globally
12M+
developers on platform
Integrations
Built‑in integrations for seamless DevOps
IBM NS1 Connect features built-in integrations with some of the most widely used infrastructure-as-code tools, empowering DevOps teams to make reliable, secure deployment changes without the friction of traditional processes.
Resources
Smarter network decisions, made
Explore valuable insights, access learning materials and product documentation on IBM NS1 Connect.
Pricing
Choose the right plan for your business
Improve your network resilience with IBM NS1 Connect, available through flexible plan options—essential, standard and premium.
Premium users can add performance and security add-ons based on their needs, giving you the flexibility to expand capabilities, scale as you grow and pay only for what you use.
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