Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 12 of 77
AWS · 1 category · RankedAWS Lightsail
17Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative labels
8 / 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 Cloud hosting for small business buyers
Rank 19 of 85 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business10 of 81
2%13 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market19 of 85
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In cloud hosting · 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 Lightsail 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 19 of 85 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | =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 Lightsail held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · 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 24 → 20 of 75
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 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 24 → 19 of 85 |
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 Lightsail 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 Lightsail 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative5 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.
“It is highly predictable and provides an easy path to transition to broader AWS services later.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“choose this if you already use AWS or may need to connect to AWS services” GPT-6 Luna · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · alternative
“Simple AWS entry, snapshots, easy upgrade to full AWS” Grok 4.20 · Cloud hosting · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS Lightsail, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Lightsail was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS Lightsail, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Lightsail 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 Lightsail. 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 17 of the 17 answers that named AWS Lightsail and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
digitalocean.com8
hostingadvice.com8
atlantic.net6
shattered.io6
hostinger.com5
hostscore.net5
newsweek.com5
scalahosting.com5
aws.amazon.comYour site4
bluehost.com4
Fifty-two of the fifty-six domain citations in answers naming AWS Lightsail came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where AWS Lightsail stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where AWS Lightsail 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 lightsail”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 53 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 19 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 17 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 17 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 Lightsail
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AWS Lightsail; a claim can dispute any of them.
Amazon Lightsail 1
Follow AWS Lightsail
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.
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The company
AWS is the company behind AWS Lightsail.ShowHide
The company
AWS is the company behind AWS Lightsail.
ShowHideOn record
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
- Build applications and websites fast with low-cost, pre-configured cloud resources
- For
- Simple web apps; Websites; Dev/test environments; Small business apps
- Price stated
- low, predictable prices aws.amazon.com/lightsail
- Starting price
- 3.50 aws.amazon.com/compare/ec2-and-lightsail
- Free plan or trial
- Try Lightsail for free aws.amazon.com/lightsail
- Hosting
- 東京リージョン
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, customers
What AWS Lightsail's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aws.amazon.com/lightsail, aws.amazon.com/compare/ec2-and-lightsail, aws.amazon.com/free/compute/lightsail, aws.amazon.com/jp/cdp/migrate-lightsail, aws.amazon.com/free/compute/lightsail-vs-ec2. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 AWS Lightsail'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 AWS Lightsail, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for AWS Lightsail by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where AWS Lightsail 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 Lightsail, 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.