A leader in Gartner® 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for container management and cloud-native application platforms
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, recently announced that it has been named a Leader in Gartner 2025 Magic Quadrant for Container Management and the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.
Alibaba Cloud believes these recognitions underscore Alibaba Cloud’s continued commitment to leading innovations that empower global enterprises and drive digital transformation.
“We believe being recognized by Gartner as a Leader in both Container Management and Cloud-Native Application Platforms reflects our unwavering focus on delivering solutions that meet the rapidly evolving technology needs of today’s businesses. With digital competency quickly becoming a non-negotiable, we’re fully committed to making the adoption of digital tools as easy and effective as possible while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in these technologies,” said Jiangwei Jiang, Senior Researcher and General Manager of Infrastructure Products, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
According to Gartner, “Leaders distinguish themselves by offering a service suitable for strategic adoption and having an ambitious roadmap.”
For Container Management, Alibaba Cloud has a comprehensive container service portfolio, which delivers strategic flexibility across public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
The container management market reached over USD2.5 billion in value in 2024, and by 2028, 95% of new AI deployments will use Kubernetes, up from less than 30% today, according to the Gartner report.
For Cloud-Native Application Platforms, Alibaba Cloud’s leadership position is attributed to its full-featured modern development environment, which integrates developer productivity, AI, and serverless compute. Its Serverless App Engine (SAE), Function Compute, and Container Compute Service (ACS) enable organizations to rapidly build, deploy, and scale AI-enabled applications with ease.
The cloud-native application platform market exceeded $3.5 billion revenue in 2024, with worldwide spending growing at a double-digit, year-over-year rate of 16.4%. This market is projected to exceed the $7 billion revenue mark by 2029, at a five-year CAGR of 15.1% from 2024 through 2029 in constant currency, according to Gartner.
Alibaba Cloud believes it is well-positioned to capture the resulting opportunities as its key strengths include empowering developers with advanced toolchains and serverless orchestration; driving AI innovation through offerings such as AI models, AI gateways, and one‑click AI application templates; and strong market awareness underpinned by a product strategy designed to meet growing demand for scalable, flexible, and secure solutions.
During this year’s Apsara conference, Alibaba Cloud’s annual flagship technology conference, Alibaba Cloud has upgraded its ACS to enhance its auto-scaling capabilities through optimized scheduling and container image cache acceleration technologies. This enables elasticity, supporting the scaling of up to 15,000 pods per minute to handle massive, highly concurrent agent requests.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Wataru Katsurashima, Tony Iams, Lucas Albuquerque, Michael Warrilow, Stephanie Bauman, 6 August 2025
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, Prasanna Lakshmi Narasimha, 4 August 2025
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