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The most visible cloud hosting platforms in Italy, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from Italy in Italian 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

50%of answers name it

Most cited source

amazon.com

29citations

From ChatGPT

Where engines disagree most

Render

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 55 , range 34–74
55
  • : score 55 · #1
 50% 16% First reading
2 Google Cloud US New entry 52 , range 31–72
52
  • : score 52 · #2
 45% 13% First reading
3 DigitalOcean US New entry 45 , range 25–68
45
  • : score 45 · #3
 33% 17% First reading
4 SiteGround BG New entry 41 , range 6–55
41
  • : score 41 · #4
 14% 9% First reading
5 Cloudways MT New entry 40 , range 18–58
40
  • : score 40 · #5
 18% 14% First reading
6 Bluehost US New entry 37 , range 0–78
37
  • : score 37 · #6
 4% 2% First reading
7 InMotion Hosting US New entry 37 , range 0–78
37
  • : score 37 · #7
 2% 2% None First reading
8 Microsoft Azure US New entry 36 , range 22–61
36
  • : score 36 · #8
 29% 10% First reading
9 Hostinger LT New entry 35 , range 3–52
35
  • : score 35 · #9
 11% 7% First reading
10 Namecheap US New entry 31 , range 0–77
31
  • : score 31 · #10
 2% 1% 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

151 new entries

Drop-outs

No drop-outs.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
1 amazon.com Brand site 18.3% 1 of 4 28 1
2 google.com Brand site 13.3% 2 of 4 19 1
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5 microsoft.com Brand site 6.7% 1 of 4 9 1
6 digitalocean.com Brand site 6.7% 2 of 4 6 2
7 hetzner.com Brand site 8.3% 2 of 4 5 1
8 vercel.com Brand site 5.0% 1 of 4 6 1
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The questions, and who wins each

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

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