Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 4 → 6 of 42
AWS · 1 category · RankedAWS CDK
94Judge labels
1First choices
14Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in IaC for enterprise buyers
Rank 6 of 59 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 37 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of AWS CDK →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 47
0%37 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market6 of 59
0%37 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise7 of 69
2%20 labels
criticized challenger
In iac · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named AWS CDK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 6 of 59 | 11% | 37 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, AWS CDK held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · IaC · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 51, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 13 of 57
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaC | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 6 of 59 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated AWS CDK across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated AWS CDK across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct18 labelsNone
Paraphrase12 labelsNone
Comparative21 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labels1
Scale-constrained19 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative94 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“Only consider this if you are a "Single Cloud Shop" and are strictly committed to one provider (usually AWS).” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“If you are AWS-only and want zero-cost native integration, AWS CloudFormation + CDK is a viable alternative” Muse Glimmer 30B · IaC · direct prompt · alternative
“AWS-only: AWS CloudFormation / AWS CDK. No tool fee, native integration and drift detection.” Muse Glimmer 30B · IaC · budget prompt · alternative
“Cloud-native tools like AWS CDK ... are also cost-effective as they carry no separate tool fee” Llama 4 Maverick · IaC · budget prompt · alternative
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.
“generally not recommended as a mid-market company’s primary IaC tool” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · direct prompt · hard negative
“Why Cloud-Native Tools (AWS CDK, Azure Bicep) Are NOT Recommended” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“AWS CDK is also limited to AWS, so these can create lock-in if you later need portability.” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
“Vendor lock-in; not ideal for multi-cloud.” Grok 4.20 · IaC · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS CDK, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS CDK was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS CDK, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS CDK was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 AWS CDK. 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 81 of the 94 answers that named AWS CDK and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pulumi.com64
spacelift.io34
guideflow.com33
checkthat.ai21
docs.aws.amazon.comYour site20
firefly.ai18
gartsolutions.com18
cortex.io17
dev.to17
facets.cloud17
239 of the 259 domain citations in answers naming AWS CDK came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where AWS CDK stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where AWS CDK stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“aws cdk”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 628 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on AWS's site (aws.amazon.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 6 of 59 in iac
Segment leader
57%
Terraform
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 94 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 81 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 AWS CDK
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AWS CDK; a claim can dispute any of them.
AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) 2AWS CDK / CloudFormation 1AWS CloudFormation & CDK 1AWS CloudFormation + CDK 1CDK 1
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The company
AWS is the company behind AWS CDK.ShowHide
The company
AWS is the company behind AWS CDK.
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Company records- Also from AWS
- AWS ACM, AWS ACM Private CA, AWS ALB, AWS ALB/ELB, AWS ALB/NLB, AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs, AWS Amazon Aurora, AWS App Runner and 87 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- enabling IaC development in high-level programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java
- Customers named
- Thomson ReutersAmazon Customer Service
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What AWS CDK's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/infrastructure-as-code-at-thomson-reuters-with-aws-cdk, aws.amazon.com/blogs/contact-center/managing-amazon-connect-flows-as-code-with-aws-cdk, aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/accelerating-development-with-aws-cdk-plugin-cfnguardvalidator, aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/managing-amazon-opensearch-ui-infrastructure-as-code-with-aws-cdk, aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/devops-with-serverless-jenkins-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-aws-cdk. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for AWS CDK by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where AWS CDK 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 AWS CDK, 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.