Alibaba Cloud Named a Visionary in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services

Hangzhou, China, September 28, 2021 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a Visionary in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (Magic Quadrant for CIPS). Alibaba Cloud moved further on right and appeared as a Visionary for the first time.

According to Gartner, “The scope of the Magic Quadrant for CIPS includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and integrated Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.” The evaluation criteria cover a vendor’s ability to execute and the completeness of its vision. Under these criteria, the report analyzed a provider’s Product or Service, Market Responsiveness, Business Model and Innovation, among other metrics.

“Visionaries have zambitious vision of the future and are making significant investments in the development of unique technologies.” According to Gartner.

“Being named a Visionary in this year’s Magic Quadrant for CIPS is an important achievement and acknowledges our strengths,” Jiangwei Jiang, Senior Researcher and General Manager of Infrastructure Products, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, “We intend to build on this momentum and look for new ways to reinforce our regional leadership, bolster our financial position and refine our corporate vision. This result is a great encouragement, and we look forward to further improving our cloud capabilities and continuing to meet the needs of our customers around the world.”

Given the company’s knowledge of local markets and ability to act as a bridge to digital commerce, Alibaba Cloud is well positioned to be the preferred provider in emerging cloud markets. This is reinforced by its strong data analytics capabilities, which make the digital transformation process accessible for enterprises of all kinds.

Earlier this year, Alibaba Group was ranked third in the global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and first in the Asia Pacific region for the third consecutive year in Gartner Market Share: IT Services, Worldwide 2020 report.

In November 2020, Alibaba Cloud was named a Leader in 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services, 27 July 2021, Raj Bala | Bob Gill | Dennis Smith | Kevin Ji | David Wright

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About Alibaba Cloud

Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com) is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualization services, large-scale computing, security, management and application services, big data analytics, a machine learning platform and IoT services. Alibaba Cloud is China’s leading provider of public cloud services by revenue in 2019, including PaaS and IaaS services, according to IDC. Alibaba Group is the world’s third leading and Asia Pacific’s leading IaaS provider by revenue in 2020 in U.S. dollars, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report.