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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Queries
30 to 80 million per month (10M increment add-ons)
50 million to 1 Billion per month (10M increment add-ons)
Custom quantity
DNS Records
1000 DNS Records
1000 up to 10,000 DNS Records (add-on increments of 1,000)
Custom quantity
Health Check Monitors
Continuously test endpoint availablility and performance to ensure traffic is only directed to healthy resources.
2 Monitors
2 to 100 Monitors
Custom quantity
Traffic Steering Filter Chains
Apply a sequence of traffic-routing rules and filters to determine the optimal destination for each DNS query.
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1 Filter Chain
1 to 100 Filter Chains
Custom quantity
HTTP Redirects
Redirect website visitors from one URL to another using standard HTTP response codes.
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Unlimited HTTP Redirects
Unlimited HTTP Redirects
Unlimited
HTTPS Redirects
Securely redirect users from one URL to another over HTTPS while preserving encrypted connections
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5 HTTPS Redirect
50 HTTPS Redirects
Unlimited
Zone Versoning
Track, manage and roll back DNS zone configuration changes through version-controlled snapshots.
Unlimited Zone Versioning
Unlimited
Spike Protection (DDos and NXD)
Helps protect applications from performance issues by smoothing traffic changes during unexpected spikes.
Spike Protection
Support
Single Sign-on (SSO)
Enables users to access NS1 Connect using a single set of corporate credentials without separate logins.
Two-factor authentication
Alert Center Notifications
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Data Feeds
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Api-first
26 Global Points of Presence (PoPs)
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DDoS Mitigation, PoP Overprovisioning
Protects applications from large-scale attacks and traffic surges by filtering malicious requests and maintaining excess network capacity across global PoPs to ensure performance and availability.
100% Uptime SLA
20+ Integrations
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Secondary DNS via XFR/AXFR Zone Transfer
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Account Permissions
DNSSEC
Enhances DNS security by verifying that DNS records have not been altered in transit.
Activity Log
Provides a detailed audit trail of user actions and configuration changes across the platform.
Enterprise Grade Security
Unlimited User Account creation
Queries
Up to 80 million
Up to 1 Billion
Custom quantity
DNS Records
Up to 10,000
Custom quantity
Health Check Monitors
Up to 100
Custom quantity
Traffic Steering Filter Chains
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Up to 100
Custom quantity
NXD Waiver
Removes or limits charges associated with high volumes of NXDOMAIN (non-existent domain) DNS responses.
Add-on
DDoS Overage Protection
Shields customers from unexpected costs incurred during large-scale DDoS attacks or unusual traffic spikes.
Add-on
Cloud Sync
Synchronizes supported authoritative DNS data between IBM NS1 Connect and Amazon Route 53, helping maintain DNS redundancy across the two providers.
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Cloud Sync
Cloud Sync
Cloud Sync
Cloud Sync Data Connections
The number of configured IBM NS1 Connect and Amazon Route 53 network connections available for Cloud Sync data synchronization.
1
1
2
Professional Services (IBM Technology Expert Labs)
Provides expert consulting and implementation services to help customers design, deploy and opitimize their DND infrastructure.
Professional Services
Professional Services
Professional Services
Advanced Support
Advanced Support
Customer Success Migration Support
Add-on
Pulsar (RUM / Multi-CDN Steering)
Real User Monitoring-based traffic steering that uses live performance and availability measurements to route users across application, cloud or CDN endpoints.
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Pulsar (RUM / Multi-CDN Steering)
Dedicated DNS
Provides DNS infrastructure dedicated to a single customers for enhanced isolation, contro and performance.
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Dedicated DNS
DNS Insights
DNS observability and analytics that help teams investigate traffic patterns, response codes, anomalies and configuration issues.
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DNS Insights
DNS for China
A managed DNS network designed to improve DNS performance and reliability for users in mainland China.
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DNS for China
Enhanced Monitor Interval
Increases health-check frequency to detect endpoint issues and trigger adjustments more quickly.
Enhanced Monitor Interval
Vanity Name Server
A custom-branded authoritative nameserver hostname using a customer-controlled domain instead of provider-branded namservers.
Vanity Name Server
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