# Amazon Web Services alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 128 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Amazon Web Services holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-web-services/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- DigitalOcean Droplets: 36
- Hetzner: 5
- Atlantic.Net: 4
- Akamai Connected Cloud: 3
- Cloudways: 3
- Vultr: 3

## Cloud hosting

**Small business**: 59 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Web Services (Amazon Web Services is #2 of 14 at 9%).

- DigitalOcean Droplets: first choice in 24 of those 59
- Hetzner: first choice in 4 of those 59
- Atlantic.Net: first choice in 3 of those 59
- Cloudways: first choice in 3 of those 59
- Vultr: first choice in 3 of those 59
- Render: first choice in 2 of those 59
- Vercel: first choice in 2 of those 59
- Akamai Connected Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 59

**Mid-market**: 40 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Web Services (Amazon Web Services is #2 of 14 at 28%).

- DigitalOcean Droplets: first choice in 12 of those 40
- Akamai Connected Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 40
- Amazon Web Services, AWS: first choice in 1 of those 40
- Atlantic.Net: first choice in 1 of those 40
- DreamHost: first choice in 1 of those 40
- Hetzner: first choice in 1 of those 40
- Hostinger: first choice in 1 of those 40
- Hostwinds: first choice in 1 of those 40

**Enterprise**: 29 of 84 answers did not name Amazon Web Services (Amazon Web Services is #1 of 8 at 45%).

- Microsoft Azure: first choice in 2 of those 29
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: first choice in 2 of those 29
- Microsoft Windows 365: first choice in 1 of those 29

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