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 DeveloperWeek CloudX 2023 (Aug 15-16 in San Mateo, CA) for their company employees & customers.
2023 Winners
Category
Cloud Architecture, Containers, Orchestration
Winner
MinIO for MinIO
Nominees:
Back4App, CloudXLER8R, DevZero, Direktiv.io, Elementl, Fairwinds, flox, Forward Security, Journey Foods, Kubecost, Liquid Reply, OutSystems, Slim.AI
Category
Cloud Business Intelligence
Winner
Zenpulsar for PUMP
Category
Cloud Data Platforms, Data Management, Big Data
Winner
Cockroach Labs for CockroachDB
Nominees:
Accelario, Acryl Data, CData Software, DiffusionData, DISH Wireless, EDB, HarperDB, InNeed Cloud
Category
Cloud Infrastructure
Winner
OpenMetal for On-Demand Private Cloud
Nominees:
DuploCloud
Category
Cloud Innovation
Winner
Skyflow for Data Privacy Vault
Nominees:
apiplatform.io, Cascadeo, Cloudinary, genezio
Category
Cloud Integration
Winner
Software Tree for Gilhari
Category
Cloud IoT & Edge Computing
Winner
Second State for WasmEdge runtime
Category
Cloud Management
Winner
Firefly for Firefly Cloud Asset Management Solution
Nominees:
Stacklet
Category
Cloud Monitoring & Observability
Winner
Logz.io for Logz.io Open 360
Nominees:
Helios, Kloudfuse, Mezmo, Rookout, Splunk, Tracetest
Category
Cloud Security
Winner
Sysdig for Sysdig Secure
Nominees:
Aembit, Cerbos, Corsha, Deepfactor, Jit, Wib API Security
Category
Cloud Streaming & Processing
Winner
Scramjet for Scramjet Cloud Platform
Nominees:
QsrSoft
Category
Innovator of the Year (Person)
Winner
Raj Verma, CEO, SingleStore
Nominees:
Anton Babenko, Vignesh Ravichandran, Deexith Reddy
Category
Platform-as-a-Service
Winner
Lightbend for Kalix
Nominees:
Aserto, PerfAI, sikka.ai
How it Works
The 2023 CloudX Awards seek to recognize and honor the best in cloud technologies, products & services.
Nominations are accepted through Friday, July 21, 2023. 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 Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Winners will be presented with their awards during the 2023 CloudX Ceremony on August 14, 2023, in San Mateo, CA,
Why Apply?
Honorees in 2023 will enjoy the following benefits:
Recognition: 2023 CloudX Awards are the definitive awards for the cloud industry, held in conjunction with DeveloperWeek CloudX 2023, the premier international cloud computing & infrastructure conference & expo.
Visibility: Winners receive two (2) PRO Passes to DeveloperWeek CloudX 2023 and a commemorative physical award, presented at the CloudX Awards Ceremony & VIP Reception on August 14, 2023, in San Mateo, 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, July 21, 2023
Nominations close: Judging begins
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Winners Announced
Monday, August 14, 2023
2023 CloudX Awards Ceremony & VIP Reception
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
San Mateo Marriott San Francisco Airport
Categories
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 Architecture, Containers, Orchestration
Tools and services designed to help teams deploy and maintain containerized cloud native 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 Innovation
Cutting edge products and services that point toward the future of cloud native capabilities.
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 Security
Tools and services designed to help both security and operations teams monitor their deployments for vulnerabilities and rapidly resolve them.
Cloud Storage, Object & Data Storage
Tools and services designed to help operations teams manage data objects and files using cloud native tooling.
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.
Innovator of the Year (Person)
An indiviudual who has contributed signficantly to the cloud native industry in 2023.
Platform-as-a-Service
Hosted systems that manage much of the complexities of cloud native deployments on behalf of their customers.
Cloud Advisory Board
Grayson Adkins
Co-Founder/CEO @ Uffizzi
Anshu Agarwal
VP @ Digital Ocean
Shan Anwar
Principal Software Engineer @ Intuit
Sergiy Balynsky
VP of Engineering @ Spin Technology Inc
Ashish Bhalgat
Cloud Solution Architect @ Thoughtworks
Mighael Botha
CTO - Americas @ Software AG
Ivan Burazin
CDXO @ Infobip
Peter Chestna
CISO of North America @ Checkmarx
Ovidiu Cical
CEO @ Cyscale
Ian Crosby
Engineering Manager @ Fictiv
Roger Cummings
Co-Founder CEO @ FitStack
Joe Dahlquist
VP Product Marketing @ Weaveworks
Chander Damodaran
CTO @ Brillio
Ron Efroni Rotman
CEO & Co-Founder @ flox
Dan Erez
Lead Architect @ Erez Tech
Mats Eriksson
CEO @ Arctos Labs
Alan Flower
SVP, Head Cloud Native Labsv @ HCL
Matt Fox
Global Director @ TD SYNNEX
Karthik Gaekwad
Devrel Lead for Experiments @ Google
Philip Gavlan
Director of Engineering @ Cyber Defense Group
Martin Giess
CTO @ EMnify
Laurent Gil
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer @ Cast AI
George Hantzaras
Director of Engineering, Kubernetes @ MongoDB
Jenna-Shae Harris
Solutions Engineer @ VMware
Mans Jabal
Specialist Leader in Cloud Engineering @ Deloitte
Marc Jimenez
Technical Staff/TechOps Architect @ Dell Technologies
Shankar Kalyana
IBM Fellow @ IBM
Gagan Kapahi
Sr. Principal Engineer/Director @ Optum/UHG
Max Körbächer
Co-Founder @ Liquid Reply
Prasad Krishnan
Engineering Leadership @ Stripe
Lasantha Kularatne
Principal Software Engineer @ Expedia
Swarraj Kulkarni
CTO @ MediaAgility
Satish Kumar
Solutions Architect @ Apple
Rémy Léone
Engineering Manager @ Scaleway
Virginia Liu
CMO @ TimeScale
Martin Loewinger
V.P. of Cloud Engineering @ SmartBear Software
Antonio Davi Macedo Coelho de Castro
CEO @ Back4App
Hugh McKee
Developer Advocate @ Lightbend
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
Marco Moschettini
CTO @ Cubbit
Krishnaraj Nair
CTO @ 1Rivet
Adora Nwodo
Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Adao Oliveira
Cloud Solutions Architect @ Oracle
Gianluca Padovani
CTO & Founder @ Coders51
Samridh Pandey
Senior consultant @ Capgemini
Prashant Patil
Software Sr. Principal Engineer @ Dell Technologies
Deepak Ramakumar
VP Engineering @ Ruckus Networks
Javier Ramirez
Head of Developer Relations @ QuestDB
Payal Rani
Staff Software Engineer @ Robinhood Markets
Ravi Ravichandran
VP of Cloud @ Juniper Networks
Dilip Ravindran
Head of Infrastructure Security @ Coinbase
Deexith Reddy
Senior Data Engineer @ Fidelity Investments
Jacob Reichert
VP of Engineering @ Yotascale
Jared Reimer
President @ Cascadeo
Giulio Roggero
Founder & CTO @ Mia-Platform
Shira Shamban
CEO @ Solvo
Kshitish Soman
Head, Engineering, Lyve Cloud @ Seagate Inc.
Rajesh Tammana
Head of Engineering @ AWS
Eddie Tejeda
Senior Director of Engineering @ Mode
Josh Thurman
Co-founder @ Uffizzi
Hugo Valentim
VP of Engineering @ Stratioautomotive
Chris Van Tuin
Chief Technologist @ Red Hat
Henrique Vaz
CEO @ CleanCloud
Jagadish Venkatraman
Senior Engineering Manager @ LinkedIn
Jim Walker
Principal Product Evangelist @ Cockroach Labs
Yingjun Wu
Founder and CEO @ RisingWave Labs
Misha Yalavarthy
Engineering Manager of Security @ Sentry
Michael Yuan
Founder @ Second State