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Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a serverless relational database service from AWS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL · aws.amazon.com ↗

#1Best rank (enterprise)
14/14Models named it
28First choices
27Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inManaged relational databases #1 enterpriseVector databases #29
What AI models recommend in managed databases

Leads at enterprise. Ranked 6 of 77 for small business buyers.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Small business
Asked for a small B2B company
#6 of 77 named for small business
Share of first picks5%

Supabase is first at 29%.

Mid-market
Asked for a mid-market B2B company
#4 of 82 named for mid-market
Share of first picks8%

Amazon RDS is first at 51%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.

EnterpriseStrongest
Asked for an enterprise B2B company
#1 of 99 named for enterprise
Share of first picks43%

Ranked first. Next is Amazon RDS at 20%.

Why models recommend it

“If your infrastructure is already on AWS, choose Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. It balances reliability, compliance, auto-scaling, and industry-standard adoption.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Best Overall for AWS Infrastructure: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL ... is the gold standard for mid-sized B2B platforms.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Choose Amazon Aurora if you're on AWS or need maximum scalability — it provides the best price/performance ratio”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Amazon Aurora has recently overtaken Amazon RDS as the top choice among enterprise buyers”Mistral Small · Comparative question · first choice

What gives them pause

“Some models explicitly recommend avoiding RDS for production core systems unless absolutely necessary.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Experts advise caution or avoidance for production core systems unless absolutely necessary.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“Avoid Overkill: Skip premium options like Amazon Aurora or Azure SQL Managed Instance”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Be cautious about AWS RDS when workloads are I/O-heavy or analytics-heavy... Aurora may help within AWS, but it increases platform-specific coupling.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Amazon Aurora, over the 139 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
Google Cloud SQL
1115Compare →
Amazon RDS
10536Compare →
Azure SQL Database
1006Compare →
Supabase
4210Compare →
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
340View →
Neon
324Compare →
PlanetScale
260View →
DigitalOcean Managed Databases
241Compare →
CockroachDB
220View →
Google Cloud Spanner
200View →

What the models named instead of Amazon Aurora →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Amazon Aurora's own site, not checked by Gane.

Also from Amazon
Amazon API Gateway, Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Athena, Amazon Athena Federated Query, Amazon Aurora Serverless and 48 more
Visit aws.amazon.com ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Amazon Aurora came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 113 of the 139 answers that named Amazon Aurora and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)57
aws.amazon.comIts own site52
cloud.google.com39
docs.aws.amazon.comIts own site36
learn.microsoft.com35
github.com31
g2.com29
docs.cloud.google.com23
azure.microsoft.com21
northflank.com18

196 of the 341 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Aurora came from a third party's page. Fifty-seven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.

Pages cited

aws.amazon.com/rds28
gane.ai/index/it/it-data/managed-relational-databases/enterprise26
cloud.google.com/sql24
docs.cloud.google.com/docs/get-started/aws-azure-gcp-service-comparison19
github.com/PatrickWiloak/cloud-data-ai-security-zero-to-hero/blob/main/resources/service-c17
techtarget.com/news/Cloud-database-comparison-AWS-Microsoft-Google-and-Oracle/84287115
gane.ai/index/it/it-data/managed-relational-databases14
aws.amazon.com/rds/features13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Amazon Aurora across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini03205
Gemini 3.5 Flash21014
Perplexity Sonar02024
Grok 4.2012126
Mistral Small12003
DeepSeek V4 Flash02215
Llama 4 Maverick03014
Qwen 3.7 Flash02024
Kimi K220204
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.503003
GPT-6 Luna03003
Muse Glimmer 30B21014

What it publishes

Addresses on aws.amazon.com
280,316
subdomains included
Content
42,799
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,345
Product · Integration
3,213 · 49,021
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog27,117undatedAPI gateways, ETL
Glossary or explainer6,521undatedETL, MFA
Case study2,47602019-03-01WAF, Observability
Webinar or virtual event2,057162026-07-01Streaming, API gateways
Comparison1,52102025-09-01Object storage, ETL
Conference or event1,48202025-11-01Vector databases
Report or ebook1,090162026-09-01WAF, NoSQL
Podcast or video351undatedETL
Template or tool15002025-05-01
News or press34undated

Most recent

Events in person

The twelve months before September 28, 2026

As the event pages on aws.amazon.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page aws.amazon.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ETL (168); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 28, 2026.