AWS recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the 16th consecutive year

AWS has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the 16th consecutive year, ranked highest on the Ability to Execute axis.

• AWS delivers an open data architecture built on Apache Iceberg with native support across ingestion, storage, catalog, and analytics layers
• S3 Tables provides fully managed Apache Iceberg tables with automated compaction and maintenance for agent-ready data
• AWS Context service automatically maps data relationships into knowledge graphs for governed agentic search and business rule enforcement
• AWS Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation provide unified governance with row-, column-, and cell-level access control
• AWS databases including Aurora, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache support vector search from billions to trillions of vectors at agent speed
• S3 Files and S3 Vectors enable agents to access shared file systems and store/query vectors with up to 90% cost reduction
• OpenSearch Service Serverless provides lexical, vector, hybrid, and agentic search in a single system

AWS's comprehensive data and AI platform enables organizations to build production-ready agentic AI applications with governed, scalable data foundations.