Alibaba Cloud's Industry Leadership Recognized by Top Global Research Firms

Sustained leadership in Cloud infrastructure and AI innovation

Hangzhou, China, March 3, 2025 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, continues to solidify its standing as a global leader in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). Recent recognitions in top global research reports from Forrester and Gartner, spotlight Alibaba Cloud’s ongoing advancements and its role in enabling organizations globally with its trusted cloud infrastructure and AI solutions.

As the global cloud market evolves, shifting focus from the traditional cloud infrastructure to AI infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud is redefining key elements such as computing, storage, networking, databases, big data and its proprietary large language model (LLM) Qwen series to drive the next wave of AI innovation.

“The next wave of AI innovation will be the driving force behind the most transformative success stories. However, for organizations to fully realize the potential of AI, they must recognize that its true impact is built upon a foundation of scalable, resilient and secure cloud infrastructure. At Alibaba Cloud, we are helping to construct the backbone of the future digital economy, where AI, powered by a robust cloud foundation, will redefine industries and unlock unprecedented opportunities for growth. We are honored to be recognized by Forrester and Gartner for our efforts in this critical area, which reflect our continued leadership in cloud computing and AI,” said Jingren Zhou, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.

Continued excellence in cloud service innovation

Alibaba Cloud has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms Q4 2024 report. Alibaba Cloud believes this is a reflection of the strength of its cloud and AI offerings and strategy, global presence, and capacity to deliver a comprehensive range of products and services to its global customers. The company earned 2nd highest scores among nine global vendors in both current offering and strategy categories. The report states that Alibaba Cloud showed its capacity for AI innovation with homegrown AI models, breadth of foundation model choices and model-as-a-service (MaaS) innovation. The report also states that the core infrastructure and model-as-a-service capabilities enable Alibaba Cloud to provide a major model repository for AI across China.

Besides overall cloud-native infrastructure and AI capabilities, Alibaba Cloud’s dominance in Container Management and Cloud Database Management has also been reaffirmed in Gartner’s recent reports.

It has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the second consecutive year. The company’s broad product portfolio, offering solutions for both hybrid cloud and edge scenarios, saturation across the Alibaba Group ecosystem, and market leadership in China all contributed to this important recognition.

Building on this recognition, Alibaba Cloud continues to innovate in container technology. The company recently announced the international debut of Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS), a serverless container solution designed to streamline and optimize workload deployment. By simplifying application deployment across different hardware and systems, ACS underscores Alibaba Cloud's commitment to driving efficiency and scalability for organizations worldwide.

Alibaba Cloud has also been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) for the fifth year in a row. As per Gartner, “Leaders may represent diverse cloud ecosystems, of which their cloud DBMS is a part, or have good interoperation with such systems. These vendors demonstrate consistently high customer satisfaction and strong customer support.”

Alibaba Cloud continues to drive innovation in database technology with recent upgrades designed to make advanced solutions more accessible to customers. At its flagship Apsara Conference in 2024, the company introduced DMS: OneMeta+OneOps, a unified platform that simplifies data management across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes in multi-cloud environments. By boosting data utilization rates by up to 10 times, this platform empowers organizations to efficiently manage their data and unlock greater value, further cementing Alibaba Cloud's leadership in cloud database management.

Emerging leader in cutting-edge AI technologies

In addition to its cloud infrastructure leadership, Alibaba Cloud is making significant strides in the rapidly advancing field of Generative AI (GenAI). Alibaba Cloud has been recognized as an Emerging Leader in all four Emerging Market Quadrants of the latest 2025 Gartner® Innovation Guide for Generative AI Technologies. Alibaba Cloud believe these recognitions highlight Alibaba Cloud’s advancements in AI cloud infrastructure, AI model provision, engineering capabilities, and AI knowledge management tools—underscoring the company's role in shaping GenAI’s future across industries.

Alibaba Cloud is at the forefront of the AI-driven era with its “Cloud+AI” strategy, which integrates cutting-edge cloud infrastructure with advanced AI capabilities. A pioneer in ‘Model as a Service’ (MaaS) and one of the earliest tech companies to lead in large model technology, Alibaba Cloud is setting new benchmarks in the industry. Recent upgrades to its full-stack AI infrastructure have delivered impressive results, including over 99% efficiency in continuous model training and an over 20% increase in model computing resource utilization—further cementing its leadership in the AI space.

Alibaba Cloud continues to strengthen its global footprint, now operating 87 data centers across 29 regions worldwide. Last month, the company announced the official launch of its first cloud region in Mexico and the opening of its second data center in Thailand. These expansions underline Alibaba Cloud’s commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions to businesses around the world.

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Gartner, Innovation Guide for Generative AI Technologies, 10 February 2025

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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, big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) services. Alibaba has been named the leading IaaS provider in Asia Pacific by revenue in U.S. dollars since 2018, according to Gartner. It has also maintained its position as one of the world’s leading public cloud IaaS service providers since 2018, according to IDC.