Every category where a model named Amazon Web Services for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	29%	1 of 78	17%	58	accepted challenger
Managed relational databases	Data platform	2%	18 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Amazon Web Services yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Amazon Web Services across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	3	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	1	1	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	0	0	3	6
Perplexity Sonar	2	2	0	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	0	1	2	6
Mistral Small	2	0	2	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	2	2	6
Kimi K2	1	2	1	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	1	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	2	0	1	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct35 labels19

Paraphrase34 labels18

Comparative33 labels20not counted in share

Budget-constrained28 labels7

Scale-constrained16 labelsNone

Negative27 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative173 labels in all, every segment counted; 44 of the 68 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“AWS is usually considered the most comprehensive cloud platform, with the broadest range of services and the deepest ecosystem.” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · comparative prompt · first choice

“the best starting point is usually Oracle Cloud Free Tier (Autonomous Database) or AWS Free Tier (Amazon RDS / Aurora)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“If you have no strong existing-preference signal: AWS. It's the safest, most flexible choice for a mid-sized B2B company” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cloud hosting · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose AWS if you are building a complex, highly scalable application and have the technical expertise to manage it.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cloud hosting · direct 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 big clouds like AWS/GCP/Azure for tiny budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · hard negative

“Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP): Best if you need incredibly complex, cutting-edge services... However, they are highly complex and can be very expensive.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · scale prompt · soft negative

“A major trap for budget-conscious companies is choosing "hyperscalers" like AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

“powerful, but usually more expensive and more complex for small-budget teams unless you carefully optimize” GPT-5.4 mini · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Amazon Web Services, over the 173 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon Web Services was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Cloud138 of 1730Not in the top three

Microsoft Azure105 of 17311Compare →

DigitalOcean91 of 17330Compare →

Akamai Connected Cloud63 of 1733Not in the top three

Azure59 of 1730Not in the top three

Vultr50 of 1732Not in the top three

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure38 of 1732Not in the top three

Hetzner29 of 1738Not in the top three

Cloudways24 of 1736Not in the top three

IBM23 of 1730Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon Web Services. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 125 of the 173 answers that named Amazon Web Services and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techradar.com44

digitalocean.com43

geekflare.com43

hostingadvice.com34

forbes.com29

atlantic.net28

aws.amazon.com20

worldmetrics.org20

pcmag.com19

guideflow.com18

298 of the 298 domain citations in answers naming Amazon Web Services came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

geekflare.com/hosting/best-cloud-hosting-platforms43

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers31

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-cloud-hosting24

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/cloud-service-providers19

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/comparing-aws-azure-gcp18

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-web-hosting-services17

atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cloud-hosting-providers-small-businesses16

hostingadvice.com/how-to/best-business-cloud-hosting16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Amazon Web Services

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Amazon Web Services; a claim can dispute any of them.

AWS 31Amazon Web Services (AWS) 19AWS (Amazon Web Services) 6AWS Free Tier 1AWS Free Tier (Amazon RDS / Aurora) 1Google Cloud / AWS / Azure 1

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