6 categories · RankedAmazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform from AWS that offers hosting and other cloud services across 39 geographic regions · aws.amazon.com ↗
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 2 of 83 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
DigitalOcean Droplets is first at 55%.
Microsoft Azure is first at 29%. 7 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Microsoft Azure at 41%.
Why models recommend it
“Largest and most mature cloud platform with 200+ services... Choose AWS if you need the most services, global coverage, and proven reliability”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · first choice
“Dominates with 200+ services, massive global infrastructure... Best for enterprises and developers needing unlimited scalability.”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · first choice
“AWS is generally the most mature and broadest cloud platform... usually the default choice if you want the widest service catalog”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · first choice
“Start with either Azure (if Microsoft-integrated) or AWS (if you need maximum flexibility and growth runway)”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid big providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud unless you're using their free tiers”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/GCP) can charge heavy fees to move data out of their network... High complexity; requires dedicated FinOps/DevOps; egress fees and support plans can be expensive.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Choose AWS/Azure/GCP only if you need their broader enterprise ecosystem... enough to justify the added cost/complexity.”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Be cautious with hyperscalers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) unless you have the expertise to manage costs and complexity.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Amazon Web Services, over the 196 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | 0 | View → | |
| 123 | 24 | Compare → | |
| 113 | 39 | Compare → | |
| 69 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 57 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 3 | View → | |
| 48 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 35 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 3 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Amazon Web Services →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Amazon Web Services's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- organizations; startups to enterprises
- Price stated
- Free to join, pay only for what you use.
- Free plan or trial
- try AWS for free
- Hosting
- 39 Geographic Regions, 2 more AWS Regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chile, 124 Availability Zones within 39 Geographic Regions, North America: 31 Availability Zones within 9 Geographic Regions, 31 Edge Network Locations, 3 Edge Cache Locations
- Customers named
- Siemens Mobility, Booking.com, Audi, United, TUI, Moments Lab, March Networks, Precisely
- 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 153 of the 196 answers that named Amazon Web Services and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
199 of the 246 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Web Services came from a third party's page. Twenty-five 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 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 27,117 | undated | API gateways, ETL | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6,521 | undated | ETL, MFA | ||
| Case study | 2,476 | 0 | 2019-03-01 | WAF, Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 2,057 | 16 | 2026-07-01 | Streaming, API gateways | |
| Comparison | 1,521 | 0 | 2025-09-01 | Object storage, ETL | |
| Conference or event | 1,482 | 0 | 2025-11-01 | Vector databases | |
| Report or ebook | 1,090 | 16 | 2026-09-01 | WAF, NoSQL | |
| Podcast or video | 351 | undated | ETL | ||
| Template or tool | 150 | 0 | 2025-05-01 | ||
| News or press | 34 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-01Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest report or ebook
- 2026-09-01Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest report or ebook
- 2026-09-01Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest report or ebook
- 2026-09-01Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest report or ebook
- 2026-09-01Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest report or ebook
- 2026-09-01Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest report or ebook
Events in person
- July 2, 2026When AI Agents Pay and Sellers Monetize: Building x402 Apps for Agentic CommerceMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- July 2, 2026Harness Engineering: Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain AgentsMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- July 2, 2026Agents That Forge Their Own Tools: Self-Modifying AI in the WildMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- July 2, 2026Tell the Robots What You WantMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- July 1, 20261,000 Agent Tasks in a Sandbox: What Breaks When LLMs Write and Run CodeMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- July 1, 2026The Infinite Context Window Is a Myth: Context Engineering for AI AgentsMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- June 30, 2026From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development TeamMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- June 29, 2026 to July 2, 2026AWS at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026Moscone West, San Francisco, United States · exhibited
- June 29, 2026Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe → Fix → ShipMoscone West, San Francisco, United States · spoke
- May 20, 2026ZF Friedrichshafen AG: From SAP RISE to Enterprise TransformationPAR1152 Hall 9 Theater, Madrid · spoke
- May 19, 2026 to May 21, 2026SAP Sapphire 2026IFEMA Madrid, Madrid · exhibited
- May 19, 2026AWS Reception at Azotea CibelesAzotea Cibeles, Madrid, Spain · hosted
- May 13, 2026How Mondi AG is transforming SAP Operations with AWS AIPAR1004 Theater 11, Orlando · spoke
- May 12, 2026Tapestry accelerates innovation journey with AWS AI servicesPAR1003 Theater 1, Orlando · spoke
- May 12, 2026AWS Reception at Helena Modern RivieraHelena Modern Riviera, Orlando · hosted
- May 11, 2026 to May 13, 2026SAP Sapphire 2026Orange County Convention Center, Orlando · exhibited
- March 25, 2026OCSF Networking BreakfastIntercontinental San Francisco, San Francisco, US · hosted
- March 25, 2026AWS & CrowdStrike are co-hosting a Customer SoireeThe Mint, San Francisco, US · hosted
- March 24, 2026AWS Network Security EventSan Francisco Loft, San Francisco, US · hosted
- March 23, 2026Detective and Response RoundtableSan Francisco Loft, San Francisco, US · hosted
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.