New features:

• Force zone deletes. You have the option to force zone deletions in cases when safety checks previously prevented it. The user interface alerts you to the risks of the deletion and requires your confirmation before the zone is deleted.

• Zone transfer status from Zone list. Zone list includes icons that display the status of many zone transfers in a single view. Green indicates a successful zone transfer, yellow indicates that one or more zone transfers have issues, and red indicates a zone transfer failure. You can click the icons to view additional status details for each zone.

• Terraform Provider. You can use Terraform Provider to minimize the activity required to manage and configure Fast DNS zones and record sets, especially in organizations that use multiple authoritative DNS providers.

New features:

• New UI ergonomics. Modern and more responsive user interface. Uses Akamai’s new reporting framework. Inline documentation for adding zone records.

• New zone management API. More granularity. Offers full control to create, read, update, and delete zone data.

• New resource record types. Provides support for CAA and TLSA records, as well as TXT and SPF improvements.

• Improved zone transfer workflow. Provides easier readout and state indication. Offers improved TSIG behaviors for keys.

• Improved SLA workflow. Enables you to more easily monitor SLA service availability and align with SLA terms.

Fast DNS is General Availability

Fast DNS is a cloud-based authoritative DNS solution that augments or replaces a customer’s existing DNS infrastructure. Fast DNS improves DNS resolution times, especially for websites on an Akamai delivery product, and has the scale to absorb the largest DDoS attacks targeting the DNS infrastructure. Additional unique capabilities include:

• Tenant distribution. No two Fast DNS customers share the same NS delegation set. This protects all customers when one customer experiences a massive DNS DDoS attack against the shared infrastructure.

• Roles and permissions. Provides configuration access controls to limit who can view and edit configurations.

• Total Solution. Provides exceptional functional capabilities, such as automatic IP throttling, IPv6 support, log delivery, reporting, primary and secondary DNS, SLAs, vanity name servers, alias zones, Zone Apex Mapping, and RESTFul API and optional DNSSEC support.