The CloudX Awards celebrate innovation and excellence, honoring the best companies, products, and services in the cloud industry. Apply now to be recognized as one of the best.
This year, winners will be selected across a field of 17 categories. Every company nominated will automatically be considered for upcoming awards competitions and receive up to 50 complimentary OPEN Passes to CloudX 2025 (September 3-5, Santa Clara, CA) for their company employees & customers.
How it Works
The 2025 CloudX Awards seek to recognize and honor the best in cloud technologies, products & services.
Nominations are accepted through Friday, June 27, 2025. Nominations are public and any technology, product or service whose main innovation/value is its cloud technology is eligible for nomination. Nominees for the Innovator Award must be a person or team responsible for a significant innovation in the industry.
The judging process for the CloudX Awards is based on criteria including: technical innovation, adoption and reception of cloud technologies/products/services, press & media attention, cloud community recognition, and category/sector leadership. The DevNetwork Cloud Advisory Board, an independent, invite-only group made up of industry leaders & veterans, will select category winners after the public nomination process concludes, and winners will be announced by Thursday, July 3, 2025. Winners will be presented with their awards during the 2025 CloudX Ceremony on September 3, 2025, in Santa Clara, CA.
Why Apply?
Honorees in 2025 will enjoy the following benefits:
Recognition: 2025 CloudX Awards are the definitive awards for the cloud industry, held in conjunction with CloudX 2025, the premier international cloud computing & infrastructure conference & expo.
Visibility: Winners receive two (2) PRO Passes to CloudX 2025 and a commemorative physical award, presented at the CloudX Awards Ceremony & VIP Reception on September 3, 2025, in Santa Clara, CA.
Exposure: Be featured in local & national media promotion and get a dedicated company profile on the CloudX Awards website, where winners will remain posted year after year.
Timeline
Friday, June 27, 2025
Nominations close: Judging begins
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Winners Notified
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
2025 CloudX Awards
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
2025 API Awards Ceremony @ CloudX 2025
Categories
Cloud Application Platforms
Cloud-native platforms optimized for distributed application development and deployment.
Cloud Architecture, Containers, Orchestration
Tools and services designed to help teams deploy and maintain containerized cloud native applications.
Cloud Business Intelligence
Tools and services designed to provide data and insights to business leaders based on organizational data.
Cloud Consulting
Organizations that provide guidance for cloud native strategies and help implement related tooling and services.
Cloud Data/Database Management
Tools and services that help organizations manage, migrate, and deliver large amounts of data.
Cloud ERP Applications
Cloud-native enterprise resource planning and management applications.
Cloud Hardware/Servers
Tools, services, and appliances optimized to support cloud native workloads.
Cloud Infrastructure
Tools and services to support the underlying infrastructure supporting cloud native workloads.
Cloud Integration
Tools and services that connect heterogenous systems to make them accessible across the enterprise.
Cloud IoT & Edge Computing
Tools and services that bring the power of cloud computing to edge devices and allow for remote control and monitoring of hardware.
Cloud Management
Tools and services designed to help teams optimize their cloud investments and control costs.
Cloud Monitoring & Observability
Tools and services that allow teams to gain valuable insight into the performance and health of their cloud native deployments.
Cloud, Object & Data Storage
Tools and services designed to help operations teams manage data objects and files using cloud native tooling.
Cloud Security
Tools and services that allow teams to gain valuable insight into the performance and health of their cloud native deployments.
Cloud Streaming & Processing
Tools and services designed to work with data in real time and deliver results with minimal latency.
Hybrid Cloud Technologies
Tools and services that help teams deploy and manage workloads across different cloud providers and on-premise datacenters.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Providers of managed infrastructure services.
Innovator of the Year (Person)
An indiviudual who has contributed signficantly to the cloud native industry in 2023.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Hosted systems that manage much of the complexities of cloud native deployments on behalf of their customers.
Advisory Board
Grayson Adkins
Co-Founder/CEO @ Uffizzi
Ashish Bhalgat
Cloud Solution Architect @ Thoughtworks
Mighael Botha
CTO - Americas @ Software AG
Ovidiu Cical
CEO @ Cyscale
Ian Crosby
Engineering Manager @ Fictiv
Joe Dahlquist
VP Product Marketing @ Weaveworks
Ron Efroni Rotman
CEO & Co-Founder @ flox
Mats Eriksson
CEO @ Arctos Labs
Matt Fox
Global Director @ TD SYNNEX
Karthik Gaekwad
Devrel Lead for Experiments @ Google
Martin Giess
CTO @ EMnify
Camilo Gomez
VP Engineering @ Appgate
Alon Grinshpoon
CEO @ echo3D
George Hantzaras
Director of Engineering, Kubernetes @ MongoDB
Jenna-Shae Harris
Solutions Engineer @ VMware
Anita Ihuman
Contributor @ CHAOSS
Mans Jabal
Specialist Leader in Cloud Engineering @ Deloitte
Marc Jimenez
Technical Staff/TechOps Architect @ Dell Technologies
Gagan Kapahi
Sr. Principal Engineer/Director @ Optum/UHG
Venkatesh Konanur
Principal Engineer, Applied Research @ Verizon
Max Körbächer
Co-Founder @ Liquid Reply
Prasad Krishnan
Engineering Leadership @ Stripe
Martin Loewinger
V.P. of Cloud Engineering @ SmartBear Software
Antonio Davi Macedo Coelho de Castro
CEO @ Back4App
Jimmy Mesta
Founder & CTO @ KSOC
Shikha Mittal
Senior Director, Product Management @ VMware
Jay Modh
Founder & CEO @ Intuitive Cloud and Intuitve VC
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Founder & CEO @ SurrealDB
Mummoorthy Murugesan
Director of Engineering @ Normalyze Inc
Adora Nwodo
Founder (Former Microsoft) @ NexaScale
Adao Oliveira
Cloud Solutions Architect @ Oracle
Gianluca Padovani
CTO & Founder @ Coders51
Samridh Pandey
Senior consultant @ Capgemini
Prashant Patil
Software Sr. Principal Engineer @ Dell Technologies
Ravi Ravichandran
VP of Cloud @ Juniper Networks
Dilip Ravindran
Head of Infrastructure Security @ Coinbase
Deexith Reddy
Senior Data Engineer @ Fidelity Investments
Jake Reichert
Cofounder/VPE @ Sagen AI
Jared Reimer
President @ Cascadeo
Robert Scott
VP of Engineering Operations @ Trulioo
Shira Shamban
CEO @ Solvo
Megha Sinha
Lead Cloud Network Architect @ Arista Networks
Rajesh Tammana
Head of Engineering @ AWS
Eddie Tejeda
Senior Director of Engineering @ Mode
Chris Van Tuin
Chief Technologist @ Red Hat
Jagadish Venkatraman
Senior Engineering Manager @ LinkedIn
Yingjun Wu
Founder and CEO @ RisingWave Labs
Michael Yuan
Founder @ Second State
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