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AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

5Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store was named 3 times in Secrets, where Doppler led with 33%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 37

under the label threshold

Mid-market19 of 40

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In secrets · 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 Systems Manager Parameter Store 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
Secrets management	Identity and access	0%	19 of 40	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Doppler at 33%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Choose AWS Parameter Store (SecureString) if you are hosted on AWS and want to securely store configuration secrets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Secrets · 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.

“good for simple configuration, but they often lack the dynamic generation and fine-grained access control of a dedicated Vault” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HashiCorp Vault5 of 51Not in the top three

AWS Secrets Manager4 of 50Not in the top three

Doppler4 of 50Not in the top three

SOPS4 of 50Not in the top three

Infisical3 of 52Not in the top three

Bitwarden Secrets Manager3 of 51Not in the top three

1Password2 of 50Not in the top three

OpenBao2 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Key Vault1 of 50Not in the top three

Broadcom Privileged Identity Management1 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Systems Manager Parameter Store. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 5 answers that named AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com2

safeguard.sh2

aembit.io1

blog.codercops.com1

blog.gitguardian.com1

capy.sc1

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org1

checkmarx.com1

cycode.com1

devopsschool.com1

No domain is on file for AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

reddit.com/r/devops/comments/l7xzao/if_you_dont_use_a_secret_management_tool_youre2

safeguard.sh/resources/blog/best-secrets-management-tools-20262

aembit.io/blog/beyond-secrets-managers-5-alternatives-for-securing-non-human-identities1

blog.codercops.com/blog/secrets-management-production-20261

blog.gitguardian.com/top-secrets-management-tools1

capy.sc/blog/best-secrets-management-tools-for-developers-20261

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Secrets_Management_Cheat_Sheet.html1

checkmarx.com/learn/secrets-detection/rethinking-secrets-management-tools-why-vaults-alone1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

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

AWS Parameter Store 1AWS SSM Parameter Store 1AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store 1

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