Every category where a model named Amazon WorkSpaces 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	Since September 2026
Virtual desktops	IT operations and endpoint	10%	3 of 81	15%	61	accepted challenger

Movement

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

By model

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	5	0	1	6
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	0	1	6
Mistral Small	2	0	2	1	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	4	0	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	5	0	0	5
Kimi K2	0	4	1	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	1	2	6
GPT-6 Luna	0	4	0	0	4
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	1	2	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

Direct30 labels4

Paraphrase36 labels8

Comparative41 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels2

Scale-constrained23 labels2

Negative28 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative181 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 22 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.

“If I had to make a single recommendation without more constraints, I'd pick Amazon WorkSpaces for most mid-sized B2B companies” Perplexity Sonar · Virtual desktops · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Windows 365 or Amazon WorkSpaces offer the best balance of affordability, reliability, and ease of management.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · first choice

“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop or Amazon WorkSpaces are excellent choices” Mistral Small · Virtual desktops · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Citrix DaaS and Amazon WorkSpaces are top choices due to their scalability, security, and flexibility” Mistral Small · Virtual desktops · 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 or be cautious with Amazon WorkSpaces, Citrix DaaS, Azure Virtual Desktop (for non-Windows needs), and Shells” Mistral Small · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · hard negative

“Reasons to avoid: No text/data transfer from local machine to VM, additional technical support is paid” MiniMax M2.5 · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · hard negative

“AWS has published end-of-life timelines for some WorkSpaces client versions and support changes for PCoIP-based WorkSpaces Personal, which is a strong signal to avoid deployments that depend on deprecated clients or protocols.” GPT-5.4 mini · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · soft negative

“Amazon WorkSpaces: cloud-only, Windows-centric, manual provisioning and paid support model that can be limiting for BYOD / hybrid needs.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Amazon WorkSpaces, over the 181 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon WorkSpaces was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Citrix DaaS145 of 18123Compare →

Azure Virtual Desktop94 of 18129Compare →

Windows 36580 of 18132Compare →

VMware Horizon74 of 1811Not among the top eight

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop69 of 18132Compare →

V2 Cloud53 of 18118Compare →

Omnissa Horizon40 of 1811Not among the top eight

Nerdio Manager35 of 1814Compare →

Parallels RAS19 of 1812Compare →

Nutanix Frame14 of 1810Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 WorkSpaces. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 169 of the 181 answers that named Amazon WorkSpaces and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

venn.com111

getnerdio.com74

ironorbit.com67

apps4rent.com60

geekflare.com58

apporto.com56

g2.com56

inuvika.com45

learn.g2.com45

learn.microsoft.com45

617 of the 617 domain citations in answers naming Amazon WorkSpaces came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

venn.com/learn/vdi/vdi-solutions53

learn.g2.com/best-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-software44

geekflare.com/guides/best-virtual-desktop-solutions41

ironorbit.com/virtual-desktop-solutions-for-small-business40

getnerdio.com/virtual-desktop37

apps4rent.com/blog/top-daas-providers36

venn.com/learn/daas/daas-solutions33

inuvika.com/mbn-6-best32

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Amazon WorkSpaces stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 5,400 a month (“amazon workspaces”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 412 a month
Its own site: It sits on Amazon's site (amazon.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

10%

rank 3 of 81 in virtual desktops

Segment leader

22%

Azure Virtual Desktop

First choices: 16 across its categories
Named in: 181 answers
Its own site cited: in 169 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Amazon WorkSpaces

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

AWS WorkSpaces 2Amazon WorkSpaces (AWS) 1Amazon WorkSpaces (Personal) 1Amazon WorkSpaces / AppStream 1Amazon WorkSpaces Personal 1

Follow Amazon WorkSpaces

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Amazon is the company behind Amazon WorkSpaces.

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On record

Company records

Also from Amazon: Amazon API Gateway, Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Athena, Amazon Athena Federated Query, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Aurora Serverless, Amazon Bedrock and 46 more

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Amazon WorkSpaces's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Amazon WorkSpaces, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Amazon WorkSpaces by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Amazon WorkSpaces is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Amazon WorkSpaces, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Amazon WorkSpaces is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Amazon WorkSpaces is among the products AI models recommend first in Virtual desktops this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/virtual-desktops/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/amazon-workspaces--virtual-desktops-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Virtual desktops, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Virtual desktops standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/virtual-desktops/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/amazon-workspaces--virtual-desktops-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Virtual desktops, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Virtual desktops standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/virtual-desktops/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/amazon-workspaces--virtual-desktops-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Virtual desktops, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Virtual desktops standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.