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Daily visibility of hyperscale, sovereign, developer, and alternative cloud platforms across a neutral buying corpus.

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LEADERBOARD

Current rankings

Metric: Recommendation-prompt presence

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Cloud Platform Rank current rankings
Rank	Entity	Recommendation-prompt presence	Mention coverage	Mention share	Citation share	Engine breadth	OpenAI rec. presence	OpenAI coverage	Confidence	N	Change	Trend	Explain
01	Google Cloudcompany	91.7%	81.25%	26%	36.36%	3	100%	81.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
02	Amazon Web Servicescompany	91.7%	79.17%	25.33%	15.15%	3	100%	81.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
03	Microsoft Azurecompany	91.7%	79.17%	25.33%	12.12%	3	100%	81.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
04	IBM Cloudcompany	29.2%	22.92%	7.33%	12.12%	3	50%	31.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
05	Oracle Cloudcompany	20.8%	22.92%	7.33%	12.12%	3	37.5%	37.5%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
06	DigitalOceancompany	8.3%	10.42%	3.33%	9.09%	2	12.5%	12.5%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
07	OVHcloudcompany	8.3%	4.17%	1.33%	0%	2	12.5%	6.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
08	Alibaba Cloudcompany	4.2%	6.25%	2%	0%	2	12.5%	12.5%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
09	Cloudflare Developer Platformcompany	4.2%	2.08%	0.67%	0%	1	0%	0%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
10	Hetzner Cloudcompany	4.2%	2.08%	0.67%	0%	1	0%	0%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
11	Akamai Cloudcompany	0.0%	2.08%	0.67%	3.03%	1	0%	6.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
12	Vultrcompany	0.0%	0%	0%	0%	0	0%	0%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank

Cloud Platform Rank current rankings
Rank	Entity	Recommendation-prompt presence	Mention coverage	Mention share	Citation share	Engine breadth	OpenAI rec. presence	OpenAI coverage	Confidence	N	Change	Trend	Explain
01	Google Cloudcompany	91.7%	81.25%	26%	36.36%	3	100%	81.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
02	Amazon Web Servicescompany	91.7%	79.17%	25.33%	15.15%	3	100%	81.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
03	Microsoft Azurecompany	91.7%	79.17%	25.33%	12.12%	3	100%	81.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
04	IBM Cloudcompany	29.2%	22.92%	7.33%	12.12%	3	50%	31.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
05	Oracle Cloudcompany	20.8%	22.92%	7.33%	12.12%	3	37.5%	37.5%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
06	DigitalOceancompany	8.3%	10.42%	3.33%	9.09%	2	12.5%	12.5%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
07	OVHcloudcompany	8.3%	4.17%	1.33%	0%	2	12.5%	6.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
08	Alibaba Cloudcompany	4.2%	6.25%	2%	0%	2	12.5%	12.5%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
09	Cloudflare Developer Platformcompany	4.2%	2.08%	0.67%	0%	1	0%	0%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
10	Hetzner Cloudcompany	4.2%	2.08%	0.67%	0%	1	0%	0%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
11	Akamai Cloudcompany	0.0%	2.08%	0.67%	3.03%	1	0%	6.25%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank
12	Vultrcompany	0.0%	0%	0%	0%	0	0%	0%	100%	24	—	—	Analyze brand Why this rank

Primary brandPrompt intentAnswer enginePrompt contains

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Answer presence79.2%38/48 filtered answers mention or cite Amazon Web Services

Selected-set share30.2%Share of answer-presences among the compared brands, not market share

Owned citation answers55 answer-level URL signals on reviewed owned domains

Engine breadth3/3Engines with at least one observed presence

Filtered competitive answer-presence comparison
Brand	Presence	Vs. primary	Selected share	Mentions	Cited answers	Owned URL signals	Engine breadth
Google Cloudcloud.google.com	81.3%39/48	+2.1 pp	31.0%	219	11	12	3/3
Amazon Web Servicesaws.amazon.com	79.2%38/48	BASE	30.2%	253	5	5	3/3
Microsoft Azureazure.microsoft.com	79.2%38/48	0.0 pp	30.2%	253	3	4	3/3
Oracle Cloudoracle.com	22.9%11/48	-56.2 pp	8.7%	22	4	4	3/3

ANSWER-LEVEL OBSERVATIONS

Prompt × engine matrix

16 prompts · 48 immutable answer hashes · empty cells mean no compared brand was detected.

STRUCTURED CITATION LEDGER

Sources shaping this filtered view

Hostnames are derived from validated public HTTP(S) URLs, not provider-supplied domain labels.

Validated citation sources in filtered answers
Source hostname	Cited answers	Distinct URLs	Engine breadth	Best position	Evidence
linkedin.com	13	12	3	#1	Open source ↗
reddit.com	9	9	3	#1	Open source ↗
medium.com	8	7	3	#1	Open source ↗
cloud.google.com	7	5	3	#2	Open source ↗
gartner.com	5	5	3	#1	Open source ↗
docs.cloud.google.com	5	3	2	#2	Open source ↗
aws.amazon.com	4	4	2	#1	Open source ↗
oracle.com	4	4	2	#1	Open source ↗
youtube.com	4	4	2	#3	Open source ↗
mirantis.com	4	3	2	#2	Open source ↗
emma.ms	3	3	2	#1	Open source ↗
ibm.com	3	3	2	#1	Open source ↗
dev.to	3	3	3	#2	Open source ↗
digitalocean.com	3	3	1	#2	Open source ↗
facebook.com	3	3	1	#2	Open source ↗
nops.io	3	3	2	#3	Open source ↗
northflank.com	3	3	1	#3	Open source ↗
aerospike.com	3	3	3	#4	Open source ↗
discuss.google.dev	3	2	3	#1	Open source ↗
montecarlo.ai	3	2	2	#2	Open source ↗

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This report contains only code-reviewed public prompts, deterministic brand counts, answer hashes, and validated structured citation URLs. Full model answers are neither stored nor published here. No customer, organization, or private tracked-prompt data is included.

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Cloud Platform Rank

Current rankings

Brand vs. market

Prompt × engine matrix

Sources shaping this filtered view

Brand vs. market

Prompt × engine matrix

Sources shaping this filtered view

Public prompt	OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-mini	Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5	Geminigoogle/gemini-2.5-flash
01 Which cloud platforms are strongest for a large enterprise running a mixed portfolio of modern and legacy applications?recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud 5 source URLs`e3a08a8e`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1 6 source URLs`160ea2fa`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 7 source URLs`cdb57844`
02 Recommend a cloud platform for production AI workloads that need managed models, accelerators, data services, and strong observability.recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Azure · C1Google Cloud · C1 5 source URLs`d4758a49`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 3 source URLs`b96198e4`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 8 source URLs`bb62bb56`
03 Which cloud platform is best for a governed lakehouse, streaming analytics, business intelligence, and machine learning stack?recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1 8 source URLs`6e22eb21`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Azure · C2Google Cloud 7 source URLs`2f6afa63`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1 9 source URLs`ee915800`
04 Recommend a cloud platform for a small engineering team building serverless web applications with managed databases and low operations overhead.recommendation	Amazon Web Services · C1Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud 5 source URLs`bcde0917`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 3 source URLs`7731361e`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1 7 source URLs`31b561e5`
05 Which cloud platforms are strongest for regulated workloads that require private networking, auditability, compliance, and key control?recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud 4 source URLs`56aa77e6`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1Oracle Cloud 7 source URLs`8c0505c5`	No selected brand 5 source URLs`189ec9d1`
06 Recommend cloud providers for organizations that need sovereign deployment options, broad regional coverage, and data-residency controls.recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 7 source URLs`b36a9450`	Amazon Web Services · C1Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud 7 source URLs`165e493e`	No selected brand 3 source URLs`801397d6`
07 Which cloud platforms offer the strongest hybrid and multicloud operations for workloads spanning datacenters, edge sites, and public regions?recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud 6 source URLs`600bb1d2`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 6 source URLs`8d70f14c`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Azure · C1Google Cloud · C1Oracle Cloud · C1 8 source URLs`9b2a5428`
08 What cloud platform should a startup evaluate for predictable costs, simple deployment, developer support, and room to scale?recommendation	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 6 source URLs`ad4068f7`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 6 source URLs`93bbe299`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 5 source URLs`9d871d48`
09 Compare cloud platforms on service breadth, reliability, regions, security, support, developer experience, and enterprise governance.commercial	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1Oracle Cloud · C1 7 source URLs`c6b704c2`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1 9 source URLs`e55318ac`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 5 source URLs`b2b70184`
10 How should a buyer compare cloud pricing, discounts, support plans, network egress, and total operating cost?commercial	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud · C1 7 source URLs`8bdadbea`	Amazon Web Services · C1Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud 6 source URLs`48c95fed`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 10 source URLs`b7d86627`
11 Create a proof-of-concept scorecard for comparing cloud providers on availability, failure recovery, quotas, observability, and support.commercial	No selected brand 0 source URLs`8fb99e82`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud · C1 7 source URLs`ba181b9a`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`ddef7bd9`
12 Which criteria expose migration complexity and lock-in risk when selecting a strategic cloud platform?commercial	No selected brand 7 source URLs`4f9e2a46`	No selected brand 6 source URLs`59d3b1d5`	No selected brand 5 source URLs`5a534733`
13 Compare cloud platforms for managed relational, document, cache, warehouse, and globally distributed database workloads.commercial	Amazon Web Services · C1Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud 6 source URLs`dd8cbbfe`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 4 source URLs`6d4207f2`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud · C1 8 source URLs`213aaa2c`
14 Compare cloud platforms for managed Kubernetes, container security, service networking, autoscaling, and platform engineering.commercial	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 3 source URLs`59a3b688`	Amazon Web Services · C1Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud 9 source URLs`e9e9bcb7`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud 9 source URLs`b44c0414`
15 What should a technical buying team negotiate in a strategic cloud agreement covering commitments, portability, support, and exit terms?commercial	No selected brand 8 source URLs`50442a5b`	Google Cloud · C2 9 source URLs`ae289a0e`	No selected brand 4 source URLs`8eed053f`
16 Create a shortlist of cloud infrastructure vendors for a global company modernizing applications, data, security, and AI.commercial	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud 5 source URLs`c220e81d`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud 5 source URLs`6958df52`	Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudOracle Cloud 7 source URLs`d2b2f10f`