13th August 2025, Kathmandu
Huawei has been recognized as a Leader in the prestigious Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Container Management 2025, a testament to Huawei Cloud’s profound expertise and strategic investments in Cloud Native 2.0.
Huawei Cloud Container Management Leader
This significant acknowledgment, announced on August 6, positions Huawei Cloud at the forefront of the rapidly evolving container management landscape.
Huawei Cloud’s leadership is underpinned by its innovative suite of container products, including CCE Turbo, CCE Autopilot, Cloud Container Instance (CCI), and the distributed cloud-native service UCS.
These offerings provide an optimal cloud-native infrastructure, enabling organizations to efficiently manage large-scale, scalable containerized workloads across diverse environments—public clouds, distributed clouds, hybrid clouds, and edge computing.
Unmatched Competitiveness Across Diverse Use Cases
Huawei Cloud demonstrates exceptional competitiveness across all examined use cases by Gartner, including:
New Cloud-Native Applications: Building and deploying modern, agile applications.
Containerization of Existing Applications: Migrating and optimizing legacy applications for container environments.
AI Containers: Providing robust infrastructure for AI training and inference.
Edge Applications: Extending cloud capabilities to the edge for low-latency processing.
Hybrid Cloud Applications: Seamlessly managing workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.
Notably, Huawei Cloud exhibits particular strength in the AI container domain, offering specialized solutions designed to accelerate AI workloads.
Driving Open-Source Innovation and Ecosystem Leadership
Huawei Cloud is a significant contributor to the global cloud-native technology ecosystem and an active participant in open-source initiatives.
As a long-standing contributor to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Huawei Cloud has participated in an impressive 82 CNCF projects and holds over 20 project maintainer seats. Furthermore, it is the sole Chinese cloud provider to hold a vice-chair position on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), highlighting its influence and commitment.
The company’s dedication to open source is evident through its numerous project donations to CNCF, including:
KubeEdge: For edge computing.
Karmada: For multi-cluster Kubernetes orchestration.
Volcano: For high-performance batch computing.
Kuasar: A new container runtime.
In 2024 alone, Huawei Cloud also contributed to benchmark projects such as Kmesh (for service mesh acceleration), openGemini (a time-series database), and Sermant (for Java application governance).
Comprehensive Product Matrix and Global Adoption
Huawei Cloud boasts the industry’s most comprehensive container product matrix, catering to public cloud, distributed cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge scenarios. Its solutions have seen widespread adoption across various industries, including:
Internet
Finance
Manufacturing
Transportation
Electricity
Automotive
This pervasive adoption underscores the real-world value delivered by Huawei Cloud’s cloud-native services. With active deployments worldwide, Huawei Cloud’s rapid growth in cloud-native compute power is widely acknowledged by global users, consistently supporting customers in achieving business success.
Real-World Success Stories: Boosting Efficiency and Reducing Costs
Customer testimonials highlight the tangible benefits of Huawei Cloud’s container solutions:
Starzplay (Middle East and Central Asia): This OTT platform leveraged Huawei Cloud CCI to transition to a serverless architecture, successfully handling millions of access requests during the 2024 Cricket World Cup while reducing resource costs by 20%.
Ninja Van (Singapore): A leading logistics provider, Ninja Van fully containerized its services using Huawei Cloud CCE. This cloud-native AI service architecture ensured zero service interruptions during peak hours and improved order processing efficiency by 40%.
Chilquinta Energía (Chile): One of Chile’s major power companies, Chilquinta upgraded its big data platform to a cloud-native architecture with Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo, achieving a 90% improvement in average performance and moving towards more intelligent operations.
Konga (Nigeria): Nigeria’s leading e-commerce platform, Konga, fully transitioned to a cloud-native architecture based on CCE Turbo, ensuring a smooth shopping experience for its millions of monthly active users.
Meitu (China): A prominent visual creation platform, Meitu leverages CCE and Ascend cloud services for efficient AI computing resource management, supporting rapid iteration of large-scale training and enabling 200 million monthly active users to share their life moments in real time.
The Future is AI-Native Cloud: Cloud Native 2.0 with Intelligence
In the era of AI, Huawei Cloud is spearheading the evolution of Cloud Native 2.0 by fully integrating intelligence into its offerings. The company is actively building a next-generation AI-native cloud infrastructure powered by advanced AI technologies:
Cloud for AI: CCE AI clusters form the cloud-native infrastructure for CloudMatrix384 supernodes. These clusters offer advanced features like large-scale supernode topology-aware scheduling, PD separation scaling, AI workload characteristic-aware auto-scaling, and ultra-fast container startups, significantly accelerating AI training and inference efficiency.
AI Revolutionizing Cloud Service Experience: Huawei Cloud is committed to embedding AI into its cloud offerings. The introduction of CCE Doer integrates AI agents throughout the container usage process, providing intelligent Q&A, recommendations, and diagnostics.
It can diagnose over 200 critical exception scenarios with a root cause accuracy rate exceeding 80%, enabling automated and intelligent container cluster management.
Serverless Evolution: Cloud native is rapidly moving towards serverless. Huawei Cloud offers two powerful serverless container products: serverless Kubernetes cluster CCE Autopilot and serverless container instance CCI.
These allow users to concentrate on application development, accelerating service innovation. Recent innovations like general-computing-lite and Kunpeng general-computing serverless containers enhance cost-effectiveness by up to 40%, making them ideal for handling sudden tenfold increases in traffic.
Huawei Cloud’s continued commitment to partnering with global operators and advancing cloud-native technology innovations promises to drive unprecedented industry transformation, unlocking new opportunities for a more inclusive, accessible, and resilient digital society.
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