Small business=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 10 → 7 of 42
AWS · 1 category · RankedAWS CloudFormation
156Judge labels
3First choices
44Negative 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
5% in IaC for enterprise buyers
Rank 7 of 59 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 55 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of AWS CloudFormation →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business8 of 47
0%48 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market7 of 59
0%55 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise5 of 69
5%53 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 CloudFormation 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% | 7 of 59 | 29% | 55 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, AWS CloudFormation held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · IaC · by segment
Mid-market=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 7 → 8 of 51
Enterprise▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 10 → 5 of 57
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaC | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 of 59, unchanged |
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 CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation 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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct24 labelsNone
Paraphrase26 labelsNone
Comparative34 labelsNone
Budget-constrained22 labels3
Scale-constrained18 labelsNone
Negative32 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative156 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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-only company: consider AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK if you want tighter native integration.” GPT-5.4 mini · 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
“Choose native cloud tools (CloudFormation/Bicep) if: You're committed to a single cloud provider long-term” Claude Haiku 4.5 · IaC · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Use CloudFormation if you are all-in on AWS and want native, managed reliability without extra tooling.” Kimi K2 · IaC · comparative 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.
“Avoid starting new projects with: Chef, CloudFormation (unless AWS-only and happy)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“not "bad," but you should be cautious if portability matters, because AWS itself discusses the tradeoffs of vendor lock-in” GPT-5.4 mini · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
“This is generally not recommended for mid-market B2B companies that may acquire product lines or shift cloud strategy.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · direct prompt · soft negative
“they lock you into a single cloud provider and can be verbose and complex for multi-cloud or hybrid scenarios” Mistral Small · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS CloudFormation, over the 156 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS CloudFormation was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS CloudFormation, over the 156 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation. 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 139 of the 156 answers that named AWS CloudFormation and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pulumi.com108
spacelift.io66
guideflow.com58
checkthat.ai51
cortex.io40
gartsolutions.com38
openxcell.com35
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com34
docs.aws.amazon.comYour site33
firefly.ai32
462 of the 495 domain citations in answers naming AWS CloudFormation came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where AWS CloudFormation stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where AWS CloudFormation stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,900 a month (“aws cloudformation”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 261 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 7 of 59 in iac
Segment leader
57%
Terraform
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 156 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 139 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 CloudFormation
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AWS CloudFormation; a claim can dispute any of them.
CloudFormation 17AWS CDK / CloudFormation 1AWS CloudFormation & CDK 1AWS CloudFormation + CDK 1CloudFormation (AWS) 1CloudFormation/Bicep 1
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The company
AWS is the company behind AWS CloudFormation.ShowHide
The company
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- where AWS CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation, 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;
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