Market cut · Germany

Leading Cloud Computing Brands in AI Search in Germany

The Cloud Computing index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from Germany.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Microsoft Azure leads AI search visibility in Cloud Computing in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 76.2, ahead of Google Cloud Platform (75.3) and AWS (70.7). The median score across the 19 ranked brands is 35.8, and a score above 35.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is cambridge.org at 7.0% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 27.7%.

35k prompts · 2.4m AI answers · 10.5m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Cloud Computing · Germany
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
35.8
Half of the 19 ranked cloud computing brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 72.0
Score to enter the top 10
35.8
Clearing 35.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.0 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.6
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 3%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 8%
  • Retail 2%
  • Other 84%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding cloud computing answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
27.7%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
58/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.4m
315k in October · ▲ 7.1% vs September
Citations parsed
10.5m
985k in October · ▼ 2.3% vs September
Brands observed
517
19 ranked here · 498 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Cloud Computing, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Microsoft Azure
76.2
10.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.038digitalocean.com
02Google Cloud Platform
75.3
10.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.648digitalocean.com
03AWS
70.7
9.6%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.432amazon.com
04Amazon Web Services
57.9
7.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▲ 1.754digitalocean.com
05Hetzner Cloud
55.4
7.5%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▲ 1.658digitalocean.com
06Google
54.5
7.4%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity▼ 0.440amazon.com
07Proton Drive
54.4
7.4%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.374cloudwards.net
08DigitalOcean
54.3
7.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▼ 0.567digitalocean.com
09Tresorit
38.2
5.2%AI ModePerplexity▲ 0.182cloudwards.net
10Sync.com
35.8
4.9%CopilotPerplexity·79cloudwards.net
19 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Cloud Computing
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01cambridge.org
7.0%
—
02youtube.com
5.6%
—
03amazon.com
5.2%
▼ 7.5
04medium.com
4.5%
—
05microsoft.com
4.4%
▼ 9.2
06collinsdictionary.com
4.4%
—
07dictionary.com
4.4%
—
08hetzner.com
4.0%
▲ 1.1
09techradar.com
4.0%
▲ 0.1
10telekom.com
3.6%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Cloud Computing, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud pros and cons in real use26189
02Cloud storage services businesses trust for sensitive data54175
03Cloud providers commonly used by large regional organizations54159
04Multi cloud strategies that reduce vendor lock in74146
05Gibt es eine günstige Cloud für eine Firma, die gerade wächst?2437
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Boxscore 18.0
▲ 2.2
▲ 1.7
▲ 1.6
Falling
Microsoft Azurescore 76.2
▼ 2.0
Proton Drivescore 54.4
▼ 1.3
Microsoftscore 18.2
▼ 1.1
15 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
10,987,437 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Cloud Computing, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United Arab Emirates7.9M
02United States2M
03United Kingdom342K
04Germany342K
05Japan147K
06Canada126K
07Australia82K
08Egypt59K
09Singapore22K
10France15K
11Italy12K
12Saudi Arabia6K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Microsoft Azure leads Cloud Computing this edition with a visibility score of 76.2, ahead of Google Cloud Platform at 75.3.

cambridge.org is the most-cited source grounding cloud computing answers, at roughly 7.0% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 27.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked cloud computing brands is 35.8, and a score above 35.8 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Cloud Computing

Questions?
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the Answers.

Microsoft Azure currently leads AI search visibility in cloud computing with a Goodie visibility score of 76.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

cambridge.org is the most-cited source in cloud computing AI answers, grounding roughly 7.0% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked cloud computing brands is 35.8. A score above 35.8 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.