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

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.

Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ 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...

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.

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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.

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  • Google Cloud provides a unified execution environment supporting serverless, containerized, and agentic deployment o ptions.
  • We believe our placement highlights Google's unique readiness to power both standard enterprise microservices and the next generation of autonomous AI applications.

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