The Cloud Awards

The Cloud Awards program celebrates the standout innovations in Cloud Computing worldwide.

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The Cloud COMPUTING Awards PROGRAM

Identifying the best cloud services and infrastructure

The Cloud Awards has recognized outstanding contributions to cloud computing technologies since 2011.

The Cloud Awards main program in cloud computing now offers an end-of-year celebration of the very best software, services and infrastructure – across every area of cloud technologies, from AI to FinTech – under our original name, The Cloud Awards.

The Cloud Awards end-of-year program winners represent the unparalleled apex of excellence in today’s leading technologies. Whether you’ve entered any of the year’s previous programs, or you’ve decided to enter only the end-of-year Cloud Awards program, we invite you to help us showcase the best of the best across all cloud solutions.

This awards program closes at the end of October.

The Cloud Awards program is one of the most respected international honors in cloud computing technology. This recognition places Shopmonkey among the most innovative and impactful cloud-based solutions serving small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across industries. This achievement is a milestone.

RECENT WINNERS

Cloud Awards program winners and nominees span the globe – including America, Canada, Europe, the UK, Australia and Asia.

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2025/26 Cloud Awards Winners

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2025/26 Cloud Awards Finalists

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2025/26 Cloud Awards Shortlist

THE CLOUD AWARDS CATEGORIES

New Cloud Awards categories year-on-year

Nominate across four pillars of cloud computing excellence:

  • Business Cloud Systems of the Year (6 categories)
  • Cloud Platforms and Infrastructure of the Year (7 categories)
  • Cloud Security, Risk, and Trust Solutions of the Year (5 categories)
  • Cloud Impact and Market Leadership of the Year (7 categories)

Each pillar represents a clear and distinct dimension of excellence: operational systems, technical foundations, protection and governance, and measurable impact.

Ever-eager to welcome disruptors, if you’ve not entered one of our awards programs yet, our end-of-year Cloud Awards showcase is where it’s at. If you’ve previously reached the finalist stage of any of our other programs this year, it’s never been easier to enter this one: you can even use the same form. All entries will be considered across multiple categories of specific and overall excellence.

Business Cloud Systems of the Year

This category recognizes a cloud-based solution that supports customer relationship management, sales enablement, marketing automation, or customer service functions. Eligible solutions should demonstrate how they improve customer engagement, support revenue generation, or enhance the overall customer experience.

This award recognizes a cloud-based human resources solution that has delivered measurable value across workforce management, talent acquisition, payroll, compliance, or employee engagement. Eligible solutions should demonstrate reliability, security, and adaptability across diverse and distributed workforces.  

This category recognizes a cloud-based solution supporting enterprise resource planning, finance operations, payroll, procurement, supply chain management, or broader operational workflows. Eligible solutions should demonstrate robustness, integration capability, and measurable operational impact.  

This award recognizes a cloud-based financial technology solution that has demonstrated innovation, reliability, and measurable commercial impact. Eligible solutions may address payments, billing, lending, financial management, regulatory compliance, or embedded finance capabilities. 

This category recognizes a cloud-based communications solution that enables organizations to manage internal collaboration, customer communications, or contact center operations effectively. Eligible solutions may include unified communications platforms, cloud telephony systems, UCaaS solutions, VoIP platforms, and integrated communications environments.

This category recognizes a cloud-based data, analytics, or business intelligence solution that enables organizations to derive meaningful insights from data. Eligible solutions should demonstrate scalability, performance, usability, and strong data governance capabilities. 

Cloud Platforms and Infrastructure of the Year

This category recognizes a cloud platform that provides foundational services for building, deploying, and managing applications. Eligible platforms may include platform-as-a-service offerings, middleware environments, developer platforms, or comprehensive cloud-native ecosystems.

This category recognizes a cloud infrastructure solution that delivers compute, storage, networking, or foundational infrastructure services. Eligible solutions should demonstrate performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across cloud environments.

This award recognizes a solution that enables effective deployment, management, or optimization across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Eligible solutions should demonstrate interoperability, workload portability, governance, and operational visibility across diverse infrastructures.    

This category recognizes a platform that provides monitoring, governance, cost management, performance optimization, or operational control across cloud environments.

This category recognizes groundbreaking and impactful applications or implementations of AI and machine learning technology. Eligible nominations should be able to demonstrate how the use of AI has delivered outstanding results that would otherwise not have been possible through other technology types.

This award recognizes a cloud-based automation solution that improves efficiency, consistency, and speed across cloud environments. Eligible solutions may address infrastructure automation, workflow orchestration, configuration management, or deployment automation. 

This category recognizes innovation in cloud-native development tools, frameworks, or methodologies. Eligible entries should demonstrate novel approaches to building, testing, deploying, or managing cloud-based applications.

Cloud Security, Risk & Trust of the Year

This category recognizes a cloud security solution that delivers effective protection across workloads, applications, infrastructure, or users. Eligible solutions may address threat detection, prevention, monitoring, runtime security, application protection, or cloud-native security controls.   

This award recognizes a forward-looking or disruptive approach to cloud security. Eligible entries may include novel architectural models, AI-driven detection tools, zero trust implementations, automation-driven defense strategies, or new approaches to emerging cloud threats. 

This category recognizes a solution focused on protecting sensitive data across cloud environments. Eligible entries may include encryption platforms, data loss prevention solutions, privacy management tools, secure data sharing technologies, or regulatory data protection frameworks.

This category recognizes a cloud-based solution that supports governance, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, risk visibility, or policy enforcement across cloud environments. Eligible solutions may include automated compliance monitoring, regulatory reporting tools, governance platforms, or integrated risk management systems.

This category recognizes a solution that strengthens the resilience and continuity of cloud environments. Eligible entries may include backup and recovery platforms, disaster recovery solutions, business continuity systems, incident response orchestration tools, ransomware mitigation technologies, or high-availability automation frameworks. 

Cloud Impact and Market Leadership of the Year

This category recognizes SaaS solutions across any use case that have delivered outstanding impact for their users or customers. Entrants into this category may select whether their solution better suits SMB or Enterprise businesses, with separate awards given for both. 

This category recognizes a specific cloud implementation or deployment that has delivered significant business, operational, or technological impact. Eligible projects may include cloud migrations, cloud-native deployments, modernization initiatives, infrastructure rollouts, or cross-functional transformation programs completed or substantially advanced during the past year.   

This award recognizes an organization or initiative that has driven sustained and strategic change through cloud adoption. Eligible entries should demonstrate how cloud initiatives have enabled fundamental shifts in business models, operating structures, customer engagement, or competitive positioning.   

This category recognizes a solution, organization, or initiative that has had significant influence across the broader cloud industry. Eligible entries may include ecosystem leadership, major partnerships, open standards contributions, cross-sector collaboration, or initiatives that have materially shaped market direction.     

This category recognizes a young cloud-focused company that has demonstrated exceptional momentum, innovation, and commercial progress during the past year. Eligible startups should show strong differentiation, product-market fit, and measurable growth.   

This award recognizes a cloud company that has demonstrated exceptional growth, strategic execution, and market influence during the past year, regardless of company age. Eligible entrants may include scale-ups or established vendors entering a new phase of expansion.     

This category recognizes a cloud solution or initiative that demonstrates meaningful commitment to sustainability, responsible innovation, or positive environmental and societal impact. Eligible entries may address energy efficiency, infrastructure optimization, carbon reduction, responsible data usage, or broader sustainability strategies.  

Now accepting entries for 2026/27

Download the forms and choose your categories.

ENTRY BENEFITS

Recognition

We help promote your success every step of the way with Shortlist, Finalist and ultimate Winner stages

Badges

Make your way through each stage and unlock access to marketing materials highlighting your success

Publishing

Share and promote your expertise and insight at every stage you reach on our industry news center

Announcements

Join in the buzz at Shortlist, Finalist and Winner stages on our website and international press releases

Trophy

Every winner gets their prestigious trophy shipped to them automatically (North America only)

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Cloud Awards Previous Winners

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The Cloud Awards are one of the highest accolades in our sector.

Bernie Schiemer, HRBoss

It’s the ‘Oscar of the tech industry.’ Winning this award after such a short time is testimony to the fact that innovation today doesn’t just happen in Silicon Valley.

Alexander Ciorapciu, autoRetouch GmbH

To come away as a winner is a special achievement in an awards program of this magnitude.

Karla Friede, Nvoicepay