Cloud platforms
The hyperscalers and sovereign clouds. Evaluated by Gartner Magic Quadrant, The Forrester Wave, 2020 to 2026: 13 reports, 12 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 4 editions, 2023 to 2026
2026
2026-09-07
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure4 Leaders, 1 in other tiers
Broadcom (VMware)
Microsoft
Nutanix
Oracle
Changes since 2025
SUSE · New in Visionaries
2025
2025-09-08
2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure4 Leaders
Changes since 2024
AWS · No longer a Leader
2024
2024-10-07
2023
2023-09-27
Strategic Cloud Platform Services
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 4 editions, 2023 to 2026
2026
2026-09-01
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services5 Leaders, 2 in other tiers
Alibaba Cloud
Google
Changes since 2025
Huawei · New in Niche Players
Tencent Cloud · New in Niche Players
2025
2025-08-04
2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services3 Leaders
Changes since 2024
2024
2024-10-21
2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services4 Leaders, 4 in other tiers
Changes since 2023
2023
2023-12-04
2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services4 Leaders, 4 in other tiers
Every vendor, year by year
| Vendor | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | Leaders |
| Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | |
| Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | |
| Leaders | Leaders | · | Leaders | |
| Niche Players | Challengers | · | Leaders | |
| Niche Players | Niche Players | · | Niche Players | |
| Niche Players | Niche Players | · | Niche Players | |
| Niche Players | Niche Players | · | · |
LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 3 editions, 2020 to 2022
2022
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services3 Leaders, 5 in other tiers
Changes since 2021
2021
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services3 Leaders, 4 in other tiers
Changes since 2020
2020
2020-09-01
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services3 Leaders, 4 in other tiers
Every vendor, year by year
| Vendor | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | Leaders | Leaders | Leaders |
| Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | |
| Leaders | Leaders | Leaders | |
| Niche Players | Niche Players | Visionaries | |
| Niche Players | Visionaries | Niche Players | |
| Niche Players | Niche Players | Niche Players | |
| Niche Players | Niche Players | Niche Players | |
| · | · | Niche Players |
LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
Sovereign Cloud Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 1 edition, 2026
2026
2026-04-09
Public Cloud Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 1 edition, 2026
2026
Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.