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Gartner | 2025 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

AWS has been named a Leader for the eleventh consecutive year in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

Cloud database management systems (DBMS) are a critical component of modern IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to store, process, and analyze data at scale. As businesses increasingly migrate workloads to the cloud, choosing the right cloud DBMS provider is crucial for success.

In the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is positioned as a Leader for the eleventh consecutive year. The report evaluates 20 vendors on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision in the cloud DBMS market.

AWS continues to innovate rapidly, introducing new features and capabilities across its comprehensive database portfolio. The company provides customers with flexible deployment options, including fully managed database services, serverless offerings, and customer-managed databases. Building on the broadest and deepest set of data and analytics offerings, AWS is making it easier for customers to deploy, manage and govern their data analytics and AI assets with a unified approach that helps our customers design for the future.  

Download the complimentary report to:

  • See the detailed Gartner evaluation of AWS and other cloud DBMS vendors
  • Understand key trends and developments in the cloud database market
  • Get recommendations for selecting the right cloud DBMS for your needs
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, Henry Cook, Xingyu Gu, Ramke Ramakrishnan, Aaron Rosenbaum, Masud Miraz, November 18, 2025. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner and Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from AWS.