Subcategory · AI Citation Index
Cloud Platforms
Azure leads AI shortlists at 61%, but Kubernetes wins head-to-head evals; category scores dropped 78% from March to June.
167 discovery queries · 197 head-to-heads · refreshed Jun 18, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 167 buyer-style "Cloud Platforms" queries
Azure Cloud Services tops shortlist frequency at 61.1% across 167 prompts, followed by Kubernetes at 57.5% and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute at 36.5%. Amazon Web Services lands fourth at 34.1%, trailing Oracle despite stronger brand recognition. All four top vendors appear across every LLM model tracked, signaling consensus on core hyperscale and orchestration picks.
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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 4/100
Kubernetes dominates head-to-head comparisons with a 55-point average evaluation score across 38 queries—six points ahead of Microsoft at 49 and seventeen ahead of Oracle at 38. Amazon Web Services and Snowflake tie at 19 points despite AWS ranking higher in shortlist frequency, suggesting LLMs distinguish between visibility and technical fit. The median evaluation score of 4 underscores sharp polarization: a few platforms win most scenarios while long-tail products score near zero.
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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.
Brands to know
In this category
Azure Cloud Services
Leads shortlist frequency at 61% but shed 16 points in recent months. Still scores 58, tying Alibaba and Linode, indicating sustained baseline relevance despite momentum loss.
Read brand profile →Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute
Highest unCited score at 66 and third in shortlist rate (36.5%). Outperforms AWS in both metrics, signaling LLMs recognize Oracle's compute stack as technically competitive beyond legacy perception.
Read brand profile →Amazon Web Services
Fourth in shortlist frequency (34.1%) but scores only 19 in head-to-head evaluations—37 points below Kubernetes. Ubiquity does not translate to scenario-specific recommendation strength.
Read brand profile →Kubernetes
Second-highest shortlist rate (57.5%) and crushes evaluations with a 55-point average. Low unCited score of 10 reflects orchestration-layer positioning rather than full-stack platform play.
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Where AI pulls citations from
668 citations captured across Cloud Platforms prompt runs.
Vendor pages
159Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors
Independent sources
136Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned
Buyer questions
What AI cites for top Cloud Platforms questions
Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.
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