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AWS

AWS is a cloud provider offering managed services for running applications and data in the cloud · aws.amazon.com ↗

#37Best rank (mid-market)
14/14Models named it
1First choices
23Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inIntelligent document processing #37 mid-marketLLM gateways and observability #25Backup and disaster recovery #97Communications APIs #21API security platforms #96Artifact and container registries #27
11 more
Load balancers #35Managed relational databases #54AI governance platforms #141Cloud-native application protection #66Container and Kubernetes security #38Data center networking #77Enterprise AI assistants #93IT documentation #74Managed DNS #57OT and IoT security #33Virtual desktops #70

Why models recommend it

“AWS/GCP Artifact Registry (pay-per-GB, often cheap under ~$10–50/month for light use). Avoid if budget is *extremely* tight.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If you want build-it-yourself document processing in the cloud, AWS or Azure-style services are often better fits.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
“Want less operational work and already run in a cloud: use that cloud's managed load balancer”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“AWS partner ecosystem for cloud-connected IoT/IIoT security use cases”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“such as AWS or Microsoft Azure, offer backup solutions, they do not guarantee their backups and actually state that the customer is responsible for correctly setting up backup policies”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Native controls from AWS, Microsoft, or Google can be economical within one cloud, but their audit evidence and controls may not transfer cleanly across providers.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Microsoft and AWS likewise document security configuration responsibilities for their desktop services, so a familiar brand alone isn’t a guarantee.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“The AWS outage of October 2025 occurred when a latent race condition inside DynamoDB's automated DNS management system caused problems”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as AWS, over the 78 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

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

At a glance

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

For
From startups to enterprises
Price stated
Free to join, pay only for what you use.
Free plan or trial
Start free with AWS
Hosting
North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Customers named
Siemens Mobility, Booking.com, Audi, United, TUI, Moments Lab, March Networks, Precisely
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 AWS 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 65 of the 78 answers that named AWS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com17
aws.amazon.comIts own site13
linkedin.com10
dev.to9
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)9
gartner.com6
peerspot.com6
reddit.com6
sourceforge.net6
ciopages.com5

Sixty-five of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming AWS came from a third party's page. 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

How each model answered on AWS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500325
GPT-5.4 mini02103
Gemini 3.5 Flash02103
Perplexity Sonar00112
Grok 4.2001135
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200202
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500202
GPT-6 Luna01012
Muse Glimmer 30B00202

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.