AWS Security Hub is a cloud security service from AWS that helps teams prioritize critical security issues and respond to them at scale across their cloud environment · aws.amazon.com ↗
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is first at 33%.
Wiz is first at 45%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Wiz is first at 64%.
“AWS Security Hub CSPM is usually the best value if you're mostly on AWS”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“AWS-first: AWS Security Hub CSPM is the strongest starting point”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Free tier available for basic usage; Security Hub aggregates findings from other AWS services with compliance checks.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If you're on AWS specifically, AWS Security Hub CSPM gives you a generous free tier with native integration.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“repeatedly called "extremely basic" ... Fine as a supplement, not a primary CSPM”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Native services like AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, or Google Cloud Security Command Center... they often perform poorly when forced to manage multi-cloud environments.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Why to Be Cautious: While excellent for AWS-native compliance, its ability to monitor Azure or GCP resources is significantly weaker”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“AWS itself states that its standards and controls "don't guarantee compliance" with any regulatory framework or audit.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
The products named in the same answers as AWS Security Hub, over the 116 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 86 | 25 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 59 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 48 | 1 | View → | |
| 46 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 1 | View → | |
| 22 | 4 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of AWS Security Hub →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on AWS Security Hub's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 95 of the 116 answers that named AWS Security Hub and are not a share of its labels.
250 of the 280 domain citations in answers naming AWS Security Hub came from a third party's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |