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Platform-reported dates are provenance metadata and do not independently prove freshness.","All included platforms evaluated fit, but platformmentions counts only platforms that named the entity during ranking discovery.","Do not resolve conflicting product names, pricing, or capabilities by guessing; describe the conflict and tell buyers what to verify.","The supplied URLs were collected from platform responses and were not independently validated by the writer stage.","Company-owned citations materially outnumber independent citations; do not describe company claims as independently verified.","Platform-reported research dates differ from the authoritative run date; disclose this as a methodology limitation.","The deterministic identity audit contains qualification notes that must be disclosed where relevant.","Citations are platform-reported evidence, not independently verified facts. No-search model claims require explicit verification before being described as current facts."],"methodology":{"fit_rating_contract":["strong","good","mixed","weak","uncertain"],"included_valid_platform_count":7,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"Hosting Consensus Index cross-platform AI consensus analysis","platforms_included":["anthropic","deepseek","google","grok","kimi","openai","perplexity"],"platforms_queried":["openai","anthropic","deepseek","grok","perplexity","kimi","google"],"stages":["ranking_discovery","fit_assessment","normalization","editorial_synthesis"],"version":"alias-table-1"},"provenance":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03 20:45:05.719632+00","research_date":"2026-10-03","source_snapshot_sha256":"bd74a696ad135108937205caf638214472172c50893beb1a0e9fb4aed8e0326c","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":19,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"VPS, cloud, or dedicated server hosting provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Amazon Web Services is a strong fit for PCI compliant cloud hosting for e-commerce, provided the buyer can operate a shared-responsibility cloud environment. Six of seven platforms named AWS during the ranking stage, with an average listed rank of 1.33 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is AWS's PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider status, its broad catalog of in-scope services, and AWS Artifact access to the Attestation of Compliance and Responsibility Summary (, , -1). 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