Index › Function 03 of 6 · September 2026 Edition
Edition 01 · September 2026Function 03
Cloud and infrastructure
Where workloads run and how they are secured and paid for: hosting, posture management, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cost, backup and storage. 9 of 11 categories scored, 2 planned.
Standing in cloud and infrastructure
First-choice share across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, all twelve models, for the nine cloud and infrastructure categories scored in the September 2026 Edition.
Cloud and infrastructure
Cloud cost managementSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Cloud and infrastructure
Object storageSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Cloud and infrastructure
Cloud-native application protectionMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Cloud and infrastructure
Cloud security posture managementMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Cloud and infrastructure
Managed Kubernetes platformsMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Cloud and infrastructure
Cloud hostingMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Cloud and infrastructure
Container and Kubernetes securityMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Next in cloud and infrastructure
Planned categories are in the build queue and are scored exactly like every other.
Bare metal and edge compute plannedVirtualization and private cloud planned