Index › Vendors › AWS · September 2026 Edition

4 categories · Named, not ranked

AWS

16Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

4Categories

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

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AWS was named 4 times in DDoS and 3 other categories, where Cloudflare led with 93%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business11 of 41

under the label threshold

Mid-market39 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ddos · 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 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
DDoS protection	Network and edge	0%	39 of 51	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 93%
Managed Kubernetes platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	42 of 48	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 39%
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	50 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
NoSQL databases	Data platform	0%	37 of 72	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AWS 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1
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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative5 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“warns to be cautious with major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud when relying on them for DDoS defense alone” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · negative prompt · soft negative

“AWS notes some components like Karpenter remain customer-managed and customer-responsible for availability/security” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AWS, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Azure6 of 160Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Kubernetes4 of 160Not in the top three

Google Cloud4 of 160Not in the top three

Google Kubernetes Engine3 of 161Not in the top three

Google Cloud Armor3 of 160Not in the top three

Linode Kubernetes Engine3 of 160Not in the top three

Microsoft3 of 160Not in the top three

CrowdStrike2 of 160Not in the top three

Rancher2 of 160Not in the top three

Red Hat OpenShift2 of 160Not 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. 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 9 of the 16 answers that named AWS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aws.amazon.com3

cloudflare.com2

docs.aws.amazon.com2

fastly.com2

indusface.com2

reddit.com2

squareops.com2

6sense.com1

about.gitlab.com1

aerospike.com1

No domain is on file for AWS, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

6sense.com/tech/nosql-databases1

about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-named-a-leader-in-the-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-devops1

about.gitlab.com/press/releases/gitlab-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-gartner-magic-quadran1

aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases1

atlassian.com/blog/devops/2024-gartner-mq-devops-atlassian1

atlassian.com/devops/devops-tools/cicd-tools1

atlassian.com/forrester/forrester-wave-devops1

aws.amazon.com/shield/pricing1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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