5 categories · RankedAmazon S3
Amazon S3 is an object storage service from AWS · amazon.com ↗
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 4 of 43 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Backblaze B2 is first at 49%.
Backblaze B2 is first at 55%. 5 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Wasabi Object Storage at 15%.
Why models recommend it
“The Industry Standard: AWS S3 ... Best for: Deep ecosystem integration, complex security/compliance needs, and teams already built on AWS.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, AWS S3 is the safest choice due to its maturity, extensive feature set, and broad integration support.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Market leader with a full tier ladder from frequent access to archive... S3 is the default if you are already on AWS”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · first choice
“The pioneer and undisputed industry standard. It sets the baseline API (S3 API) that most other providers copy.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid using their Standard S3 tiers if you are on a budget—their egress fees ($90+ per TB downloaded) will catch you off guard.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“AWS S3 Standard for small workloads: $0.023/GB + $0.09/GB egress adds up fast”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid for tight budgets: AWS S3, Azure Blob, or Google Cloud Storage”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Relying on public cloud object storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage) for primary backups or active workloads without accounting for API call fees”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Amazon S3, over the 227 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 157 | 53 | Compare → | |
| 146 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 145 | 0 | View → | |
| 144 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 139 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 81 | 1 | View → | |
| 49 | 4 | View → | |
| 33 | 1 | View → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Amazon S3 →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Amazon S3's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Millions of customers of all sizes and industries
- Price stated
- pay only for what you use
- Free plan or trial
- AWS Free Tier
- Customers named
- The BBC, Adobe, Indeed, GE HealthCare, TwelveLabs, Grendene
- Also from Amazon
- Amazon API Gateway, Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Athena, Amazon Athena Federated Query, Amazon Aurora and 48 more
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
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 182 of the 227 answers that named Amazon S3 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
417 of the 487 domain citations in answers naming Amazon S3 came from a third party's page. Twenty-nine 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
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |