Category · AI Citation Index
Cloud Infrastructure
Google Cloud leads 56.5% shortlist rate; Azure falling 16 pts while Netlify surges 9 pts; Kubernetes oddly split across two entries.
460 discovery queries · 380 head-to-heads · refreshed Sep 25, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 460 buyer-style "Cloud Infrastructure" queries
Google Cloud appears in 260 of 460 prompts (56.5% shortlist rate, 762 mentions), outpacing Azure Cloud Services (51.1%, 613 mentions) and Kubernetes (50.9%, 546 mentions). Terraform and hashicorp.com together command 44.8% combined shortlist presence despite null scores. Amazon Web Services sits seventh at 26.1%, behind vmware.com and HashiCorp tooling.
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By topic
Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.
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Head-to-head
How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 3/100
Google Cloud scores 57 across 55 head-to-head queries, narrowly ahead of Kubernetes at 55 (53 queries). Terraform ranks third with 46, while Microsoft trails at 44. The median evaluation score is 3, signaling most brands lack sufficient comparison data.
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Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.
Trends
Over the last 12 months
Average scores fluctuate sharply—65 in March (n=7), dropping to 30 in September (n=9)—reflecting small, volatile sample sizes. Azure Cloud Services fell 16 points while Netlify rose 9, but total trend points span just seven months with inconsistent volumes.
Brands to know
In this category
CoreWeave
Scores 87, the highest in featured candidates, yet absent from the top-10 shortlist. Suggests niche strength in GPU-heavy or AI workloads not captured by general prompts.
Read brand profile →Google Cloud
Dominates shortlist frequency (56.5%) and evaluation score (57). Four-model diversity confirms cross-LLM consensus as the go-to hyperscaler for broad cloud infrastructure needs.
Read brand profile →Cloudflare
Ranks ninth on shortlist (21.7%) but scores 72 in featured candidates. Edge and CDN capabilities likely drive high favorability in narrower use cases.
Read brand profile →Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute
24.1% shortlist rate and 66 score, positioned eighth overall. Enterprise Oracle loyalty and bare-metal options sustain relevance despite lower mention velocity (194 total).
Read brand profile →Netlify
Rose 9 points in trends and scores 72 in featured tier. JAMstack and frontend deployment focus differentiates it from hyperscale compute players.
Read brand profile →Citation sources
Where AI pulls citations from
1000 citations captured across Cloud Infrastructure prompt runs.
Vendor pages
288Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors
Independent sources
181Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned
Buyer questions
What AI cites for top Cloud Infrastructure questions
Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.
Discovery
Buyers exploring the category- 10 Best Infrastructure Monitoring Tools in 2025kloudfuse.com
Evaluation
Buyers comparing options- Multi-Cloud Strategies for 2025: Architect Smarter, Run Anywhereitconvergence.com
Trust
Buyers checking credibilityConversion
Buyers ready to buy- The True Cost of Cloud Computing: 2025 Pricing Breakdownorientsoftware.com
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