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DNS Services

Use DNS Services on VPC Private Networks to manage hostnames and IP addresses while limiting access to the DNS records from permitted networks only.

  • Date of last update: 04/16/2025
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  • 04/16/2025
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  • IAM-enabled
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Pricing plans

Prices shown are for country or location: United States
PlanFeatures and capabilitiesPricing
Standard DNS
  • Up to 10 zones per instance; 1 zone included
  • Up to 10 VPC networks per zone
  • 3500 DNS records per zone
  • 1 million DNS queries included
Multi-Tiered
Financial Services Validated
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Manage your DNS Zones with Security & Privacy

$0.538175 USD/ZONES
$0.03681117 USD/GLB Instances per hour
$0.03681117 USD/Pools per hour
$1.07635 USD/Number of Health Checks
$0.13454375 USD/Custom Resolver Essential Locations per Hour
$0.723 USD/Custom Resolver Premier Locations per Hour
$0.363 USD/Custom Resolver Advanced Locations per Hour
Tiers
Pricing
1 - 10
$0.43054 USD/Million Custom Resolver External Queries
10+
$0.21527 USD/Million Custom Resolver External Queries
Tiers
Pricing
1 - 999
$0.64581 USD/Million DNS Queries
999+
$0.322905 USD/Million DNS Queries
  • Up to 10 zones per instance; 1 zone included
  • Up to 10 VPC networks per zone
  • 3500 DNS records per zone
  • 1 million DNS queries included
Financial Services Validated

Manage your DNS Zones with Security & Privacy

$0.538175 USD/ZONES
$0.03681117 USD/GLB Instances per hour
$0.03681117 USD/Pools per hour
$1.07635 USD/Number of Health Checks
$0.13454375 USD/Custom Resolver Essential Locations per Hour
$0.723 USD/Custom Resolver Premier Locations per Hour
$0.363 USD/Custom Resolver Advanced Locations per Hour
Tiers
Pricing
1 - 10
$0.43054 USD/Million Custom Resolver External Queries
10+
$0.21527 USD/Million Custom Resolver External Queries
Tiers
Pricing
1 - 999
$0.64581 USD/Million DNS Queries
999+
$0.322905 USD/Million DNS Queries
  • Infrastructure
  • IBM
  • 04/16/2025
  • Networking
  • Financial Services Validated
  • IAM-enabled
  • Global
  • Docs
  • Terms

Summary

DNS Services provides a reliable, secure mechanism to manage DNS records, and resolve domain names from a VPC without adding a custom DNS solution. With DNS Services, you can

  • Create private DNS zones which can only be resolved from IBM Cloud's private network.
  • Perform forward and reverse DNS lookup.
  • Configure zone names with a split-horizon view, which allows a private and a public DNS zone to share the name.

Features and capabilities

DNS resolution

Perform from your VPCs with high availability and performance.

Access for VPC networks

Control which VPC networks are permitted to look up your DNS records.

Privacy

The DNS records cannot be resolved publicly.

Getting support


If you're experiencing issues with this product, go to the IBM Cloud Support Center and navigate to creating a case. Use the All products option to search for this product to continue creating the case or to find more information about getting support. Third party and community supported products might direct you to a support process outside of IBM Cloud.

Summary

DNS Services

  • Plan: Standard DNS
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