Amazon · 1 category · RankedAmazon Aurora
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 11% | 3 of 73 | 17% | 30 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“The Corporate Standard: AWS RDS / Amazon Aurora ... Amazon Aurora (preferred over standard RDS for higher performance and scalability)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed databases · direct prompt · first choice
“If you are on AWS and want a zero-friction, incredibly robust infrastructure: Choose AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · direct prompt · first choice
“Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is the industry standard that will grow with you from $10M to $100M+ in revenue” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Prefer open-core/platform-agnostic managed services: AWS Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL (if you're already on AWS)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid v2 for hobby projects, staging/dev environments, or low-traffic applications.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“While Aurora is SQL-compatible, its underlying storage and protocol layers are proprietary to AWS. Migrating a complex, highly optimized Aurora schema ... can be difficult and expensive.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative
“*Proprietary (e.g., Amazon Aurora, Cosmos DB):* Faster performance for complex workloads, but extremely difficult and expensive to migrate away from” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed databases · scale prompt · soft negative
“Highest complaints on escalating costs (93% markup vs. raw EC2; doubles with HA), vendor lock-in, no root access” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 58 of the 81 answers that named Amazon Aurora and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
187 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Aurora came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Amazon Aurora
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