# Raw AWS CloudFormation: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge labels across 1 categories by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/raw-aws-cloudformation/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | 0% | 45 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "notoriously verbose, painful to debug, and prone to "state drift"... lock you entirely into a single cloud ecosystem" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, IaC)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise.

- Infrastructure as code: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 45 of 59.

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.