Category intelligence / infrastructure
Cloud platforms
Hyperscale, sovereign, developer, and alternative clouds ranked across a fixed infrastructure, data, security, and AI buying corpus.
Evidence catalog
Open category terminal →Live Cloud tables
| Table | Coverage | Confidence | Freshness | Cadence | Updated | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud platform rankReviewed cloud platforms ranked by recommendation-prompt presence across three configured model APIs. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platform presenceReviewed providers ranked by presence across every answer in the complete category cohort. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platform citation shareReviewed providers ranked by distinct answer-level citations to their canonical domains. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platform engine breadthReviewed providers ranked by the number of configured model APIs on which they appear. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platforms in OpenAI model API answersProvider presence in the fixed OpenAI configured-model API cohort; not the ChatGPT consumer application. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platforms in Anthropic model API answersProvider presence in the fixed Anthropic configured-model API cohort; not the Claude consumer application. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platforms in Gemini model API answersProvider presence in the fixed Gemini configured-model API cohort; not the Gemini consumer application. | 12 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud buying-prompt leadersThe leading reviewed provider for every neutral cloud buying prompt, with exact cross-engine consensus. | 16 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Cloud platform engine disagreementBuying prompts ranked by how differently the configured engines surface the reviewed provider universe. | 16 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
| Most-cited domains for cloud buying promptsURL-derived citation hostnames ranked by complete-cohort cited-answer coverage, breadth, and position. | 195 | 100% | current | daily | Jul 27, 2026 | View table → |
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Open full board →Current category leaders
| Rank | Entity | Published value | Movement | Confidence | Signal | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Google Cloudcompany | 91.7% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 02 | Amazon Web Servicescompany | 91.7% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 03 | Microsoft Azurecompany | 91.7% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 04 | IBM Cloudcompany | 29.2% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 05 | Oracle Cloudcompany | 20.8% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 06 | DigitalOceancompany | 8.3% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 07 | OVHcloudcompany | 8.3% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 08 | Alibaba Cloudcompany | 4.2% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 09 | Cloudflare Developer Platformcompany | 4.2% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 10 | Hetzner Cloudcompany | 4.2% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 11 | Akamai Cloudcompany | 0.0% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
| 12 | Vultrcompany | 0.0% | — | 100% | — | Evidence → |
Corpus cloud-platforms-2026-07-27 / 3 providers
Test your own prompt →Questions shaping this market
| Buyer prompt | Intent | Current leader | Answers | Providers | Citations | Owned citations | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Which cloud platforms are strongest for a large enterprise running a mixed portfolio of modern and legacy applications? | recommendation | Amazon Web Services · 12 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 2 | Run live → |
| Recommend a cloud platform for production AI workloads that need managed models, accelerators, data services, and strong observability. | recommendation | Amazon Web Services · 11 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 3 | Run live → |
| Which cloud platform is best for a governed lakehouse, streaming analytics, business intelligence, and machine learning stack? | recommendation | Google Cloud · 14 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 4 | Run live → |
| Recommend a cloud platform for a small engineering team building serverless web applications with managed databases and low operations overhead. | recommendation | Google Cloud · 14 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 2 | Run live → |
| Which cloud platforms are strongest for regulated workloads that require private networking, auditability, compliance, and key control? | recommendation | Microsoft Azure · 16 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 1 | Run live → |
| Recommend cloud providers for organizations that need sovereign deployment options, broad regional coverage, and data-residency controls. | recommendation | Amazon Web Services · 13 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 3 | Run live → |
| Which cloud platforms offer the strongest hybrid and multicloud operations for workloads spanning datacenters, edge sites, and public regions? | recommendation | Amazon Web Services · 19 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 3 | Run live → |
| What cloud platform should a startup evaluate for predictable costs, simple deployment, developer support, and room to scale? | recommendation | Google Cloud · 16 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 0 | Run live → |
| Compare cloud platforms on service breadth, reliability, regions, security, support, developer experience, and enterprise governance. | commercial | Amazon Web Services · 46 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 3 | Run live → |
| How should a buyer compare cloud pricing, discounts, support plans, network egress, and total operating cost? | commercial | Amazon Web Services · 13 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 2 | Run live → |
| Create a proof-of-concept scorecard for comparing cloud providers on availability, failure recovery, quotas, observability, and support. | commercial | Amazon Web Services · 18 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | Run live → |
| Which criteria expose migration complexity and lock-in risk when selecting a strategic cloud platform? | commercial | — | 3 | 3 | 18 | 1 | Run live → |
| Compare cloud platforms for managed relational, document, cache, warehouse, and globally distributed database workloads. | commercial | Microsoft Azure · 45 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 3 | Run live → |
| Compare cloud platforms for managed Kubernetes, container security, service networking, autoscaling, and platform engineering. | commercial | Microsoft Azure · 38 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 2 | Run live → |
| What should a technical buying team negotiate in a strategic cloud agreement covering commitments, portability, support, and exit terms? | commercial | — | 3 | 3 | 21 | 2 | Run live → |
| Create a shortlist of cloud infrastructure vendors for a global company modernizing applications, data, security, and AI. | commercial | Amazon Web Services · 15 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 1 | Run live → |
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