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The most visible cloud hosting platforms in France, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from France in French and English · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 60 answers read

AI: how the engines answer the board's questions; Search: Google's top 10 for the questions' demand keywords; All: both combined. How the Heralded Score works.

Leader

AWS

47%of answers name it

Most cited source

lafabriquedunet.fr

6citations

From Google AI Mode, Gemini and Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

DigitalOcean

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on Google AI Mode, not on Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT

Brands

Rank Brand Rank change Heralded Score Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
1 AWS US New entry 45 , range 29–70
45
  • : score 45 · #1
 47% 11% None First reading
2 OVHcloud FR New entry 42 , range 25–66
42
  • : score 42 · #2
 34% 15% First reading
3 LWS FR New entry 38 , range 0–73
38
  • : score 38 · #3
 5% 1% None First reading
4 Hostinger LT New entry 35 , range 2–72
35
  • : score 35 · #4
 4% 1% None First reading
5 Google Cloud US New entry 34 , range 24–63
34
  • : score 34 · #5
 35% 10% None First reading
6 o2switch FR New entry 29 , range 6–51
29
  • : score 29 · #6
 14% 4% None First reading
7 DigitalOcean US New entry 28 , range 21–54
28
  • : score 28 · #7
 21% 13% None First reading
8 Microsoft Azure US New entry 27 , range 19–55
27
  • : score 27 · #8
 23% 6% None First reading
9 Hetzner DE New entry 24 , range 20–45
24
  • : score 24 · #9
 19% 11% None First reading
10 Vercel US New entry 23 , range 19–44
23
  • : score 23 · #10
 17% 10% None First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

This month's moves

First reading. No comparable previous month yet.

Biggest risers

No clear rise.

Biggest fallers

No clear fall.

New entries

148 new entries

Drop-outs

No drop-outs.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
1 lafabriquedunet.fr Review site 10.0% 3 of 4 5 3
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4Withheld. Run a full Snapshot to see it.

The questions, and who wins each

QuestionLanguageWins it
best cloud hosting platform for independent developers English Hetzner and Vercel, tied
cloud hosting for small software teams English Railway
how can a developer host an app without managing servers English Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare Workers, Firebase, Google Cloud, Netlify and Vercel, tied
how to keep a startup website online as traffic grows English AWS
managed cloud hosting vs self-managed servers for startups English DigitalOcean

Each engine's top three

Method

For the AI side, each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured