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Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

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Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, which we believe recognizes the platforms organizations rely on to build, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications at scale. This is our third consecutive year positioned as a Leader in this report.

We are proud of this recognition. More importantly, we believe it reflects a shift we see across industries. Cloud-native application platforms are no longer where organizations build and run modern applications. They are becoming the foundation for AI transformation.

The challenge is not a shortage of AI ideas. It is turning those ideas into production systems that can connect to existing applications and data, perform reliably at global scale, and meet the security and governance standards the business already expects. That requires more than a collection of application services. It requires a platform that brings application modernization, AI innovation, operations, and security...

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