Introduction:

Gartner recently released its 2026 Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure report. Alibaba Cloud has been included in the Challengers quadrant for the first time, making it the only vendor from the Asia-Pacific region to be included in this quadrant.

In the AI-native and Agentic era, AI is moving rapidly into production business processes. What enterprises need is no longer just a "model" but a full-stack technology system that keeps AI systems running stably over the long term — one that carries the full lifecycle management of compute, models, knowledge and agents.

Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack builds full-stack AI private cloud capabilities spanning IaaS, PaaS and MaaS, with Apsara Stack as the cloud infrastructure foundation and an enterprise-grade one-stop MaaS platform together with OpenTrek as the toolchain. Enterprise customers can build, train, deploy and operate models entirely on premises, forming a self-contained loop in which knowledge, models and agents are both produced and consumed.

In China, Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack has established deep presence across the public sector, manufacturing, finance, energy, education, pharmaceuticals and transportation. Globally, it serves customers through a unified technical architecture, an open ecosystem and localized delivery, with deployments in 21 countries and regions across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, By Julia Palmer, Elaine Zhang, Adrian Wong, Daniel Bowers, 7 September 2026

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