AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Certificate Manager is an AWS service for managing the lifecycle of digital certificates, including public certificates and their automated renewal · aws.amazon.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Sectigo Certificate Manager is first at 35%.
Sectigo Certificate Manager is first at 43%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Keyfactor Command is first at 28%.
Why models recommend it
“If you are 100% in AWS/Azure/GCP: Use your cloud provider's native tools (AWS Certificate Manager, Azure Key Vault)—it's free or nearly free.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best if nearly all workloads run on AWS; ... but is less suitable as a cross-environment certificate-management platform.”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
“A cloud-native solution that simplifies the deployment and management of SSL/TLS certificates on AWS infrastructure.”Mistral Small · Comparative question · alternative
“AWS Certificate Manager provides public certificates at no cost for AWS-integrated services, with automatic renewal.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“What to Avoid ... Basic cloud provider tools (AWS ACM, Azure Key Vault): ... insufficient for multi-cloud/hybrid setups”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · warning
“Cloud-Native / Open-Source Tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager, Smallstep): ... *Caution:* They often lack deep visibility into legacy on-prem infrastructure”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“limited discovery outside their platforms and not ideal as a central enterprise CLM for multi-vendor/hybrid setups”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · warning
“AWS Certificate Manager or Google CA (if you're heavily in one cloud—limited for multi-cloud)”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AWS Certificate Manager, over the 60 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
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| 51 | 19 | Compare → | |
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| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of AWS Certificate Manager →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AWS Certificate Manager's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Organizations using AWS, hybrid, or multicloud workloads; workloads running on EC2 instances, containers, on-premises hosts, and AWS services
- Price stated
- Public and private SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through ACM and used exclusively with ACM-integrated services are free. If you choose to issue exportable public certificates, you pay for certificate issuance, certificate renewal, and related API usage. You pay a monthly fee for the operation of each private CA until you delete it, and for the private certificates you issue that are not used exclusively with ACM-integrated services.
- Starting price
- No cost
- Free plan or trial
- Public and private SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through ACM and used exclusively with ACM-integrated services are free.
- Integrations
- 3
- Hosting
- US East (N. Virginia)
- Also from AWS
- AWS ACM, AWS ALB/ELB, AWS ALB/NLB, AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs, AWS Amazon Aurora, AWS App Runner and 84 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 53 of the 60 answers that named AWS Certificate Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
188 of the 200 domain citations in answers naming AWS Certificate Manager came from a third party's page. Twelve 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |