A managed DNS provider that delivers reliable, fast and secure connections to users across the world
Overview
Reliable managed authoritative DNS
IBM NS1 Connect is a managed authoritative DNS platform that uses a global anycast network and intelligent traffic steering to keep apps fast, secure and always reachable, with a 100% uptime SLA and flexible API-first control.
Features
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Boost reliability. Elevate user experience.
IBM® NS1 Connect® provides a fully managed cloud DNS service with anycast routing, strong APIs, DDoS protection, HTTPS redirection and uptime monitoring. Boost performance, cut downtime and stay secure with automated failover, secondary DNS and real-time alerts.
Minimized DNS latency and improved application performance with a managed DNS backbone designed for peak global performance.
- Delivers a managed DNS infrastructure with worldwide points of presence: 26 point of presence (PoP) locations on 6 continents.
- Routes queries to the closest location for minimal latency and high availability.
- Absorbs traffic spikes effortlessly through global distribution.
Integrate your managed DNS operations seamlessly with powerful APIs, ensuring smooth DevOps workflows and error-free automation.
Integrates managed DNS with Terraform®, Ansible® and other tools for effortless zone creation and policy updates.
Enables you to automate provisioning to reduce manual workloads and enhance agility.
Supports real-time DNS changes and consistent deployments.
Simplifies DevOps pipelines across your entire DNS environment.
Delegate DNS management to individual application teams with custom middleware solutions.
We ensure continuous DNS availability through a layered approach, preventing DNS disruptions even under the largest DDoS events.
Combine managed DNS with secure URL forwarding to maintain brand consistency, privacy and optimal SEO value.
Handles secure redirects through managed DNS integration.
Manages certificates and HTTPS configurations automatically.
Automates certificate renewals and DNS record updates.
Preserves consistent branding and boosts SEO.
Stay proactive with real-time health checks and seamless failover to your secondary DNS server backup solution.
- Continuously evaluate endpoint health by using customizable health checks.
- Always sends instant alerts when services degrade or go offline.
- Automatically reroutes traffic to healthier endpoints by using traffic steering for seamless failover.
Use cases
What you can do with NS1 Connect
- Network uptime monitoring
- Global server load balancing
- DNS observability
- Multi-CDN steering
Improve reliability and resilience
Keep users connected and revenue flowing with a global anycast network featuring a 100% DNS uptime service level agreement (SLA). DNS servers can be subject to attacks that deny access to domains, overwhelm servers with traffic or take over DNS infrastructure. NS1 provides built-in resilience against distributed denial of service or DDoS attacks, including volumetric DDoS surges for improved DNS security. For added resilience, an optional single-tenant redundant domain name system (DNS) layer is also available.
Optimize DNS infrastructure
Your anycast DNS solution needs to have advanced, customizable traffic steering, Real User Monitoring (RUM), global server load balancing (GSLB DNS) and multi CDN capabilities to help ensure that you can deliver applications, services and content with the performance your users expect.
Enhance DNS with network observability
Automate DNS management and gain real-time visibility with the IBM® NS1 Connect® API. Streamline primary and secondary DNS tasks while integrating observability tools to detect, diagnose and resolve issues faster—reducing manual effort and improving operational resilience.
Optimize CDN performance and delivery
Maximize performance and reliability with IBM NS1 Connect's multi-CDN steering. Intelligently route traffic across multiple CDN providers using real-time performance and availability data. Leverage Real User Monitoring to automatically direct users to the fastest, most reliable CDN available. Reduce latency, prevent outages, lower costs, meet usage commitments and optimize global delivery.
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Case studies
Real clients. Real results.
Dropbox cuts latency with intelligent DNS
10-15%
reduced DNS latency for global users
Catchpoint strengthens DNS resilience
100% uptime
reliable DNS for global monitoring
GlobalDots scales with intelligent routing
30+ CDNs
steers traffic across multiple CDNs
IO River enables granular, resilient traffic steering
100% uptime
since IBM NS1 Connect implementation
Integrations
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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.
Terraform
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code software that enables DevOps teams to safely and predictably create, change and reproduce production infrastructure. The IBM® NS1 Connect Terraform Provider integration supports automatic creation and updates of configurations at scale.
Ansible
Ansible is a powerful DevOps automation toolkit. The NS1 Connect Ansible module supports automated management of your zones and records, including full support for configuring Filter Chains. Integrate IBM® NS1 Connect into your provisioning and deployment automation pipeline.
Resources
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The AI Control Plane
When AI Becomes Agentic, Connectivity Becomes Strategy
IBM NS1 Connect’s approach to seamless DNS migrations
Prevent DNS outages and performance degradation with intelligent DNS
Smarter network decisions, made
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