Every category where a model named AWS Security Groups 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
Microsegmentation	Network and edge	2%	13 of 94	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AWS Security Groups 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 AWS Security Groups 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels2

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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 you are cloud-only: Stick to AWS/Azure/GCP native firewalls and use Terraform to keep it organized.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · first choice

“Use your cloud's native controls—such as AWS security groups or Azure Network Security Groups” GPT-6 Luna · Microsegmentation · 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 Security Groups, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Security Groups was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Azure Network Security Groups10 of 140Not among the top eight

Illumio Segmentation8 of 140Not among the top eight

VMware NSX7 of 140Not among the top eight

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation6 of 140Not among the top eight

Faddom5 of 142Not among the top eight

Zero Networks Segment5 of 141Not among the top eight

Cilium5 of 140Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Workload5 of 140Not among the top eight

ColorTokens Xshield4 of 142Not among the top eight

Tailscale4 of 140Not 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 AWS Security Groups. 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 12 of the 14 answers that named AWS Security Groups and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org7

aimultiple.com6

elisity.com6

g2.com6

akamai.com5

forrester.com5

sesamedisk.com5

sourceforge.net5

tigera.io5

peerspot.com4

Fifty-four of the fifty-four domain citations in answers naming AWS Security Groups came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/microsegmentation-tools-by-business-size7

aimultiple.com/microsegmentation-tools5

sesamedisk.com/microsegmentation-best-practices-small-teams5

sourceforge.net/software/microsegmentation/for-small-business5

elisity.com/blog/top-microsegmentation-solutions4

peerspot.com/categories/microsegmentation-software4

forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-tm-microsegmentation-solutions-q3-2024/RES1813023

itechguides.com/best/microsegmentation-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where AWS Security Groups 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: 1,000 a month (“aws security groups”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 321 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 edition

Share of first choices

rank 13 of 94 in microsegmentation

Segment leader

25%

ColorTokens Xshield

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 14 answers
Its own site cited: in 12 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 AWS Security Groups

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

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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 Security Groups.

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On 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

Certifications: PCI-DSSHIPAA/HITECHFedRAMPGDPRFIPS 140-2NIST 800-171
Not stated on the pages read: Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers

What AWS Security Groups's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: aws.amazon.com/security, aws.amazon.com/s3/security, aws.amazon.com/free/security, aws.amazon.com/blogs/security, aws.amazon.com/telecom/security. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Security Groups'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 Security Groups, 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 AWS Security Groups by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where AWS Security Groups 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 Security Groups, 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.