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Index › IT › Products › AWS IAM Roles · November 2026 Edition
Non-human identity management · Named, not ranked

AWS IAM Roles

AWS IAM Roles is an AWS identity capability that provides temporary credentials in place of long-term access keys · aws.amazon.com ↗

–Too few to rank
2/14Models named it
1First choices
0Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inNon-human identity management #46 mid-market
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 Roles has 1.

Why models recommend it

“start with that cloud's native workload identities and temporary credentials before buying another platform”GPT-6 Luna · 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 Roles, over the 4 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
Akeyless Identity Security Platform
20View →
JumpCloud
11View →
OpenBao
11View →
Aembit
10View →
Astrix Security
10View →
Azure Managed Identities
10View →
Azure managed identities for workloads
10View →
Broadcom
10View →
CyberArk Conjur
10View →
Entro Security
10View →

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

At a glance

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

For
workforce identities and applications
Hosting
us-east-2
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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named AWS IAM Roles 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 4 of the 4 answers that named AWS IAM Roles and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

docs.aws.amazon.comIts own site2
aembit.io1
akeyless.io1
astrix.security1
ciopages.com1
cybercompanyprofiles.com1
developer.akeyless.io1
devtune.ai1
docs.github.com1
entro.security1

Nine of the eleven domain citations in answers naming AWS IAM Roles came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

aembit.io/iam-for-workloads1
akeyless.io/1
akeyless.io/blog/blog-1password-alternative1
akeyless.io/contact-pricing1
akeyless.io/pricing1
akeyless.io/sla-support-tiers-and-plans-limits1
astrix.security/1
ciopages.com/buyer-guides/privileged-identity-cloud1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on AWS IAM Roles across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000