Cloud security posture management · Named, not rankedAWS Config
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. AWS Config has 3.
Why models recommend it
“If you have no money at all: Stick with Native Tools (AWS Security Hub / Azure Defender)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“AWS Security Hub offers a 30-day free trial and low per-check pricing afterward.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AWS Config, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AWS Config's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Any AWS customer looking to improve their security and governance posture on AWS by continuously evaluating the configuration of their resources
- Price stated
- Pay for only what you use, with no minimums or upfront commitments
- Starting price
- 0.003
- Integrations
- 9
- Certifications
- ISO 9001, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, HIPAA
- Hosting
- AWS Regions, public AWS Regions, 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 2 of the 7 answers that named AWS Config and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming AWS Config came from a third party's page.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |