The container orchestration landscape is typically dominated by the usual suspects: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. These cloud titans have long held court as the de facto choices for enterprises embracing containerized workflows. While Red Hat, Alibaba, and SUSE have also carved out significant niches in the microservices arena, a new contender is emerging to challenge the established order.
Enter Huawei Cloud, which has just secured a spot in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Container Management, released in 2025. This placement signals that Huawei Cloud is quietly but steadily gaining traction in the enterprise market, fueled by innovation – particularly in the realm of AI-related workloads. This progress comes despite ongoing efforts by the U.S. government to curb its global expansion.
Intriguingly, Huawei Cloud boasts the highest global customer recognition score (4.7) among all companies evaluated in the Gartner report. This score surpasses not only its Chinese counterparts, Tencent and Alibaba, but also the “big three” cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Gartner’s assessment highlights Huawei Cloud’s comprehensive container product portfolio, spanning public, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments, as well as the increasingly important edge computing domain. This breadth of offerings positions Huawei Cloud as a versatile platform for diverse deployment scenarios.
While Huawei Cloud’s notable client wins often fly under the radar in the U.S. and European markets, the company is making significant inroads with enterprises in other regions. Media streaming service Starzplay, for example, relied on Huawei Cloud to deliver the 2024 Cricket World Cup across the Middle East and Central Asia. Logistics giant Ninja Van, based in Singapore, is also a key customer.
South America and Africa have also proven to be fertile ground for Huawei Cloud’s expansion. Nigerian e-commerce platform Konga leverages a cloud-native architecture built on Huawei Cloud’s CCT Turbo, while Chilquina Energia, a major power utility in Chile, reports a remarkable 90% average performance improvement across its technology stack.
Further solidifying its credibility, Huawei is deeply involved in the open-source ecosystem. As the only Chinese cloud provider with a vice-chair position on the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee, Huawei actively shapes the direction of cloud-native technologies. The company also holds over 20 project maintainer seats at the CNCF and contributes actively to key projects like KubeEdge, Karmada, and Kuasar.
Huawei’s container offerings include CCE Turbo, CCE Autopilot, the distributed cloud-native service UCS, and its Cloud Container Instance (CCI). Notably, CCE AI clusters form the backbone of CloudMatrix384 supernodes, delivering a staggering 300 petaflops of processing power. These supernodes are even touted to outperform Nvidia’s NVL72 in certain AI workloads.
Despite facing skepticism from some large enterprises in the West – stemming from concerns about its Chinese origins – Huawei remains committed to innovation in the AI and microservices spaces. This drive may be fueled, in part, by the ongoing economic and political pressures exerted by the U.S. government.
AI market observers are well-acquainted with Huawei’s Pangu models, pre-configured with specialized learning datasets tailored to specific industries, including utilities, media, engineering, and telecommunications.
Huawei Cloud currently spans 34 geographical regions, encompassing 101 availability zones (AZs). The company’s AI Cloud Services provide AI compute resources to over 1,300 customers, including globally recognized brands, public sector organizations, and academic institutions.
Huawei and other Chinese providers, are notably committed to open development. Often times, their approaches stand in stark contrast to Western companies, which tend to adopt secret and closely guarded approaches to proprietary advancement and technology.
Huawei Cloud’s leadership in open-source projects like KubeEdge and Volcano demonstrates its commitment to a broad range of open initiatives, strengthening the company’s capabilities and reach in both AI and container technologies – a key factor reflected in Gartner’s assessment.
Ultimately, Huawei Cloud’s ability to deliver a comprehensive suite of supporting technologies – from AI silicon to security solutions – alongside its container management platform, has propelled it into the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s latest report.
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