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SaaS: CDN & Security and DNS Market Share
Authoritative DNS and CDN & security providers of 24 large listed cloud-software (SaaS) companies.
Covering 24 companies · 22 with full data · updated weekly (next scan Mon, Oct 19)
22companies
809live hostnames
100%multi-cloud
55%use 2+ hyperscalers
DNS (authoritative): SaaS
Traffic-weighted
AWS Route 53 45%Akamai Edge DNS 20%Cloudflare DNS 16%Self-hosted 4.3%DNS Made Easy 4.1%UltraDNS (Vercara) 3.8%Google Cloud DNS 2.7%NS1 (IBM) 2.7%Packet Clearing House 1.7%Azure DNS 0.1%
By hostname count
AWS Route 53 52%Akamai Edge DNS 19%Cloudflare DNS 8.2%Self-hosted 5.6%Google Cloud DNS 5.2%UltraDNS (Vercara) 3.4%DNS Made Easy 3.1%NS1 (IBM) 2.8%Packet Clearing House 1.1%Azure DNS 0.1%
CDN & Security: SaaS
Traffic-weighted
AWS 52%Cloudflare 23%Akamai 9.1%Google Cloud 4.6%Fastly 2.7%Azure 2.6%Unknown 2.5%Vercel 2.0%Self-hosted 1.6%F5 0.1%
By hostname count
AWS 57%Cloudflare 19%Akamai 7.0%Google Cloud 3.8%Azure 3.6%Self-hosted 3.3%Fastly 2.5%Unknown 2.5%Vercel 0.4%F5 0.1%
Baseline scan 2026-10-17. Trend charts fill in weekly.
Companies
| Company | Fortune rank | DNS (primary domain) | CDN & security (traffic-weighted) | Multi-cloud | Live hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce salesforce.com + 1 more | #114 | Packet Clearing House + UltraDNS (Vercara) Secondary DNS | Akamai 51% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly | 37 |
| ServiceNow servicenow.com + 1 more | #333 | Akamai Edge DNS Secondary DNS | AWS 37% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, F5 | 42 |
| Okta okta.com | — | AWS Route 53 + Google Cloud DNS Secondary DNS | AWS 88% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud, Vercel | 84 |
| Netskope netskope.com | — | Self-hosted Single | Cloudflare 55% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Azure, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 41 |
| PagerDuty pagerduty.com | — | AWS Route 53 Single | AWS 91% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare | 54 |
| CrowdStrike crowdstrike.com | — | Akamai Edge DNS Split | Akamai 67% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Cloud | 40 |
| Dynatrace dynatrace.com | — | NS1 (IBM) + Akamai Edge DNS Secondary DNS | AWS 94% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare | 53 |
| GitLab gitlab.com | — | Cloudflare DNS Single | Cloudflare 81% | Yes AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Google Cloud | 33 |
| DocuSign docusign.com + 1 more | — | Akamai Edge DNS Single | AWS 46% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Azure, Cloudflare | 52 |
| Zscaler zscaler.com | — | DNS Made Easy Split | AWS 83% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare | 18 |
| Twilio twilio.com + 1 more | — | AWS Route 53 Split | AWS 90% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 57 |
| Veeva Systems veeva.com + 1 more | — | AWS Route 53 Single | Fastly 47% | Yes AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 46 |
| Atlassian atlassian.com + 2 more | — | AWS Route 53 Single | AWS 99% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare | 49 |
| Shopify Partial data, full scan Oct 26 shopify.com + 1 more | — | Cloudflare DNS Single | Cloudflare 69% | Yes Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 14 |
| Datadog datadoghq.com | — | AWS Route 53 Split | AWS 91% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Azure, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 35 |
| Rubrik rubrik.com | — | AWS Route 53 Single | AWS 35% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 10 |
| RingCentral ringcentral.com | — | Cloudflare DNS Split | Cloudflare 81% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare, Google Cloud | 24 |
| Zeta Global zetaglobal.com | — | Akamai Edge DNS Single | Vercel 62% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, Vercel | 5 |
| Cloudflare Partial data, full scan Oct 26 cloudflare.com + 1 more | — | Google Cloud Split | Google Cloud 75% | Yes Cloudflare, Google Cloud | 3 |
| Tenable tenable.com | — | Self-hosted + AWS Route 53 Single | Cloudflare 56% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare | 17 |
| Waystar waystar.com | — | NS1 (IBM) + Cloudflare DNS Secondary DNS | AWS 79% | Yes AWS, Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Cloud | 7 |
| Elastic elastic.co | — | AWS Route 53 Single | Google Cloud 57% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud | 13 |
| SentinelOne sentinelone.com | — | Cloudflare DNS Single | Cloudflare 87% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare | 7 |
| Freshworks freshworks.com + 1 more | — | AWS Route 53 Single | AWS 55% | Yes AWS, Cloudflare | 85 |