Alibaba Cloud in Analyst Research

Alibaba Cloud has been recognized as a Leader for the fourth consecutive year.

Alibaba Cloud has been recognized in the Niche Players Quadrant basis its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Alibaba Cloud, the only Chinese vendor, has been positioned a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management.

Alibaba Cloud, the only Chinese vendor, has been recognized for the first time in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DaaS.

Recently, Gartner officially released the Market Guide for Analytics and Decision Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain. Alibaba Cloud is the only recognized Chinese company and has been positioned as a Representative Vendor in this report.

Alibaba Cloud was named as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouses, Q2 2023. And Alibaba Cloud is also the only technology company in China which is named as a Strong Performer.

Alibaba Cloud was named a Challenger for two consecutive years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services. And Alibaba Cloud was also ranked 1st in the Language Use Case for three consecutive years among Chinese vendors in the Critical Capabilities for Cloud AI Developer Services.

Alibaba Cloud was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: FaaS, Q2 2023 and got the highest score in current offering category.

Alibaba Cloud Ranks as a Strong Performer in Infrastructure-as-a-Service Platform Native Security.

Alibaba Cloud became the only Chinese vendor that has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms for 4 consecutive years and was positioned as a Challenger in the 2023 report.

Alibaba Cloud was positioned as a Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for two consecutive years

Alibaba Cloud is a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant. Compared with last year, the position of horizontal and vertical axes has improved, and Alibaba is the only Chinese vendor shortlisted for this report.

Gartner released the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, and Alibaba Cloud became the only vendor in China positioned into the "LEADERS" Quadrant for the third consecutive year.

In "The Forrester Wave™ Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms in China, Q4 2022 "Alibaba Cloud ranks as a leader.

In "The Forrester Wave™ Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms, Global, Q4 2022 "Alibaba Cloud ranks as a strong performer.

Alibaba Cloud has been placed in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services report published on 19 October 2022 ^[1] . It is our 6th consecutive year appearance in this Magic Quadrant.

Gartner released 2022 Critical Capabilities for Cloud AI Developer Services. Alibaba Cloud Ranked Second in Language Use Case.

Gartner released the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, and Alibaba Cloud is named as a Challenger.

Alibaba Cloud is named a Major Player in this report. Alibaba Cloud CDN comprises a network of 2,800 CDN nodes across 70 countries in 6 continents.

Alibaba Cloud entered this report again and is the only Chinese company in this Magic Quadrant.

Forrester views Alibaba as a leader in the public cloud container platforms market, and Alibaba Cloud is a great fit for global enterprises targeting China and Asia Pacific markets or local firms going abroad that seek comprehensive cloud-native capabilities for digital transformation with proven experiences.

Gartner released the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, and Alibaba Cloud has been named as the LEADER for the second year in a row.

Alibaba Cloud achieved a score of 81 out of 100. Alibaba Cloud has been included in this report for 3 years in a row and is also the only Chinese cloud vendor selected for this report so far.

Alibaba Cloud has been placed in the Challengers quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls report published on 21 November 2021

Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk provide new ideas for cloud collaborative development through the in-depth integration of the capabilities of YiDA.

Alibaba Cloud DingTalk was the only recognized Chinese company. Gartner subscribers can click the link below to view the full report.

Alibaba Cloud has been placed in the Visionaries quadrant. This is the first time Alibaba Cloud has moved further on right and appeared as a Visionary. It is our 5th appearance in this Magic Quadrant.

Alibaba Cloud was named a Strong Performer. Alibaba Cloud is the only Chinese cloud vendor that successfully secured it's spot in this report.

Alibaba Cloud has been placed in the Niche Players quadrant, Alibaba Cloud is the only selected cloud provider from China.

Forrester views Alibaba Function Compute as a leader in the FaaS market, especially for clients looking to process video-heavy workloads or take advantage of the function concurrency their container-centric model supports.

Alibaba Cloud was named a Strong Performer in Cloud Data Warehouse. Alibaba offer real-time and exabyte-scale capabilities to support any data warehouse requirement.

Alibaba Cloud has been placed in the Niche Players quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms report published on 1 March 2021 .

Alibaba Cloud has been placed in the VISIONARIES quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services report published on 24 February 2021

Alibaba Cloud was named a Leader in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Solutions. Forrester commented that ‘PAI is ideal for firms that already run business applications on Alibaba Cloud and seek easy, high-performance model training and deployment services.’

Gartner described that Alibaba has very good base IaaS capabilities. It has enhanced networking and storage since last year’s evaluations. It also can perform large-scale provisioning of resources for disaster recovery and batch computing requirements. The underlying infrastructure displays strong resiliency.

Gartner positioned Alibaba Cloud in the Niche Players Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls 2019. Please click Read More to view the report.

Forrester positions Alibaba Cloud as a Strong Performer in SaaS marketplaces. The report evaluates 8 vendors against 10 criteria of SaaS.

Alibaba Cloud Named a Strong Performer in First-Ever Forrester New Wave for SaaS Marketplaces.

Forrester positions Alibaba Cloud as a Contender in Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW). The report evaluates 14 vendors against 25-criteria of CDW.

Forrester positions Alibaba Cloud as a Strong Performer in Specialized Insights Service. The report evaluates 9 vendors against 20-criteria of Insights Service.

Gartner positions Alibaba Cloud in the Challengers Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services.

Forrester positions Alibaba Cloud as a Leader in Full-Stack Public Cloud Development Platforms (PCDP). The report evaluates 12 vendors against 33-criteria of PCDP.

Forrester positions Alibaba Cloud as a Strong Performer in public cloud platform native security (PCPNS). The report evaluates 7 vendors against 37-criteria of PCPNS.