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Index › IT › Products › AWS IAM · November 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

AWS IAM

aws.amazon.com ↗

–Too few to rank

3/14Models named it

0First choices

0Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inMulti-factor authentication #39 mid-market Workforce identity and SSO #26

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. AWS IAM has 2.

Why models recommend it

“AWS IAM offers free MFA”Claude Haiku 4.5 · 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 IAM, over the 10 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Microsoft Entra ID	6	0	View →
JumpCloud	5	3	View →
BeyondTrust	4	0	View →
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager	4	0	View →
Auth0	3	0	View →
Delinea Secret Server	3	0	View →
HashiCorp Vault	3	0	View →
ManageEngine PAM360	3	0	View →
Aembit	2	2	View →
CyberArk Identity	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 IAM's own site, not checked by Gane.

For: human users and workloads accessing your AWS resources
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

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 IAM 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 9 of the 10 answers that named AWS IAM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com5

securden.com3

softwareadvice.com3

spotsaas.com3

aimultiple.com2

askmeidentity.com2

expertinsights.com2

okta.com2

securityboulevard.com2

arxiv.org1

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming AWS IAM came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

securden.com/blog/cost-effective-pam-for-sme.html3

aimultiple.com/pam-solutions2

askmeidentity.com/resources/iam-outage-tracker2

g2.com/categories/privileged-access-management-pam/small-business2

softwareadvice.com/privileged-access-management/small-business2

spotsaas.com/category/privileged-access-management--pam--software2

spotsaas.com/list/privileged-access-management--pam--software/for-small-business2

arxiv.org/pdf/2408.106341

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on AWS IAM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0