2026 Gartner MQ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

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We are thrilled to announce that Google has been recognized as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms (CNAP). We believe this placement in the Leaders quadrant validates our commitment to providing an accessible, developer-centric platform that accelerates onboarding and supports rapid prototyping across modern workloads.

Our vision for an application-centric cloud focuses on enabling developers to prioritize writing code and building agents or traditional apps by removing infrastructure complexity. Google Cloud provides a unified execution environment supporting serverless, containerized, and agentic deployment options. We believe our placement highlights Google's unique readiness to power both standard enterprise microservices and the next generation of autonomous AI applications.

Some key features and capabilities of our platform are highlighted below.

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