Big three cloud providers tend to snap most of the hosting honors of containerized workflows. Google, AWS, and Microsoft are de facto hosting providers that use Red Hat, Alibaba, and Suse to make up other family names in the Microservices space.
However, the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 for Container Management is located in Huawei, the quadrant for the first time in leadership. Huawei Cloud is a company that quietly infiltrates the mindset of businesses around the world, innovating especially with AI-related workloads.
Huawei Cloud scored the company’s world’s highest customer recognition score (4.7) in Gartner’s paper, beating the “Big 3” of AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure, along with fellow Chinese giants Tencent and Alibaba.
According to Gartner, Huawei Cloud offers the most complete container product matrix in the cloud industry. In this matrix, platforms can be found in public, distributed, hybrid clouds, and edge environments.
The company’s big win from a client and user perspective has been barely reported in the US and Europe, but it has proven to be an effective provider for companies such as Singapore’s media service Starzplay (which streamed the 2024 Cricket World Cup in the Middle East and Central Asia) and logistics giant Ninjaban.
South America and Africa are also some success scenes for Chinese companies, with Nigerian e-commerce platform Conga in particular using cloud native architectures based on Howay Cloud’s CCT turbo and Chilean major power utility Chilkina Energy Gear. The latter organization talks about an average performance improvement of 90% across the stack.
Linux Foundation’s Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) operates an open, interoperable approach to all elements of cloud computing. Huawei is a Chinese cloud provider who serves as vice-chair of the organization’s technical monitoring committee. The company also maintains CNCF’s over 20 project maintainer sheets. He is also an active donor to projects under CNCF supervision, including Kubeedge, Karmada and Kuasar.
Huawei offers include container products such as CCE Turbo, CCE Autopilot, distributed cloud native services UCS, and its cloud container instances (CCIs). The CCE AI cluster forms the infrastructure of CloudMatrix384 supernodes. This will provide 300 PetaFlops processing grants, surpassing the NVIDIA NVL72.
It is Chinese origin that creates automatic xenophobic mistrust despite being seen as having some degree of doubt by large Western companies. Huawei continues to innovate in the microservice space despite the continued economic, trade, and rhetorical pressures applied by the current US administration.
AI Market Watchers recognize Huawei’s Pangu model, pre-configured with directed learning corpus for specific industries such as utilities, media, engineering, telecom and more.
Huawei Cloud is available in 34 geographical regions with 101 AZS (availability zones). Huawei’s AI Cloud Services provides AI calculations to over 1,300 customers, including renowned brands, public sector organizations, and academic institutions around the world.
The commitment by Huawei, Huawei Cloud and other Chinese providers that are profoundly and easily permeated in the development of models at open opposed to the Western company’s approach, where unique technologies and advances are closely judged secrets.
Huawei Cloud’s Open Source Project Leadership Kubeedge and Volcano demonstrate their commitment to a wide range of open source projects that broadens the company’s capabilities and scope in AI and containers, as reflected in Gartner’s findings.
The company’s ability to provide adjacent support technologies related to container management (AI silicon, security, etc.) helped to place the company in the leader section of the latest Gartner Paper.
Check out the Full Gartner Peer Insight Magic Quadrant for Container Management 2025 here.
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