AWS Transfer Family
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed file transfer | Data platform | 2% | 10 of 97 | 7% | 14 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated AWS Transfer Family across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Start with Files.com or AWS Transfer Family” Kimi K2 · MFT · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“consider migrating to a more secure MFT provider or a purpose-built cloud storage service (like AWS Transfer Family or Azure Data Box)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MFT · negative prompt · alternative
“Best for seamless cloud integration, enables fully managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP transfers directly into Amazon S3 or EFS” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · comparative prompt · alternative
“best if your company already runs heavily on AWS and wants managed SFTP endpoints plus transfer logs” Perplexity Sonar · MFT · paraphrase 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.
“users note costs can rise quickly for low-volume or intermittent transfers” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as AWS Transfer Family, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Transfer Family was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 43 of the 45 answers that named AWS Transfer Family and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
186 of the 186 domain citations in answers naming AWS Transfer Family came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where AWS Transfer Family stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,600 a month (“aws transfer family”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 75 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- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 45 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 43 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.
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The company
AWS is the company behind AWS Transfer Family.ShowHide
The company
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- Positioning
- Easily manage and share data with simple, secure, and scalable file transfers
- For
- organizations
- Price stated
- Pay only for your server endpoints enabled with AS2 and the number of messages exchanged, with no up-front costs. aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/as2
- Free plan or trial
- Sign up for a free account aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/mft
- Certifications
- FedRAMPHIPAA eligibilityDrummond CertifiedDrummond Group AS2 Cloud Certification SealPCI-DSSGDPRSOC 1, 2, and 3HIPAA eligible
- Hosting
- AWS East/West RegionsGovCloud (US) Regions
- Customers named
- FICOFINRALiberty Mutual InsuranceCity of Los Angeles Information Technology AgencyCSD BRnConnect GroupSyndic8Redpack
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations
What AWS Transfer Family's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family, aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/mft, aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/as2, aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/faqs, aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/pricing. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where AWS Transfer Family 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 Transfer Family, 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.