Huawei Cloud Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™  for Container Management

• Huawei Cloud has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Container Management for our ability to execute and completeness of vision in the global container management.
• Huawei Cloud provides a wide set of container services and deeply integrates them with Agentic Infra to meet diverse needs across industries. These services are already widely used in industries such as Internet, finance, manufacturing, and transportation, helping global customers achieve business success.

SHENZHEN - Recently, Gartner®, a company that delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams, officially released the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Container Management report. Huawei Cloud has been named in the Leaders Quadrant for a consecutive year. Once again, we are recognized for our ability to execute and completeness of vision, according to the official website of Huawei. 

The report evaluates global cloud service providers across core scenarios including New Cloud-Native Applications, Containerize Existing Applications, AI Training Workloads, AI Inferencing Workloads, Edge Applications, and Hybrid Applications.

Huawei Cloud provides the industry's most comprehensive container product portfolio, covering public cloud, distributed cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge scenarios. The products have seen widespread adoption in industries such as Internet, finance, manufacturing, and transportation, where they help global customers achieve business success.

In the era of AI agents, Huawei Cloud has focused on AI strategies, continuously increasing investment in AI infrastructure. Huawei Cloud was the first in the industry to propose the new paradigm of Agentic Infra. Huawei Cloud makes container technology the core of its work, continuously improving foundational capabilities in compute, scheduling, runtime environments, and the open-source ecosystem to create more fertile "silicon soil" where AI can thrive.

CCE intelligent computing clusters leverage Huawei Cloud's advantages in hardware-software-chip synergy to efficiently orchestrate AI Cluster Service (AICS). This enables pooling and unified scheduling of compute from over 100,000 cards, providing a stable cloud native foundation for AI workloads such as large model training and inference.

CCE VolcanoNext, a unified general & AI scheduling engine, achieves innovation in unified general-purpose and AI workload scheduling through "shared training-inference pooling + fragmentation consolidation", improving resource utilization by over 30%. In inference scenarios, it works with Kthena intelligent routing, prefill/decode multi-role orchestration capabilities, and EMS high-performance KV cache to further improve inference throughput and achieve efficient utilization of compute.

AgentSphere delivers a secure and autonomous agent runtime environment, providing a secure autonomous runtime foundation with ultimate elasticity and proactive intent protection. Leveraging ultra-lightweight sandbox technology, it achieves fast startup within 100 milliseconds and the ability to batch-create hundreds of thousands of instances per minute, helping agents scale securely and efficiently on the cloud. This efficiently supports high-frequency calls in Agent Serving and large-scale parallel training in Agentic RL.

Huawei Cloud has actively contributed to the open-source ecosystem construction in global cloud native communities, donating to flagship open-source projects such as Volcano, KubeEdge, and Karmada to CNCF. Huawei Cloud has also released Kthena and AgentCube for AI inference and agent scenarios, continuously promoting the evolution of global container and cloud native technologies towards AI.

Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud will continue to embrace philosophy of joint innovation and shared success, deepen the convergence and innovation of containers and Agentic Infra, and provide more open, efficient, and reliable infrastructure for the large-scale implementation of agent applications and intelligent upgrades of various industries.