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Who should enter the ‘Cloud Operational Resilience Solution of the Year’ category?

The ‘Cloud Operational Resilience Solution of the Year’ category recognizes the platforms and strategies that focus on the ability of a business to absorb, adapt to, and recover from significant operational shocks – whether caused by technical failures, cyber incidents, or physical infrastructure outages.

Entries may showcase advancements in High Availability (HA) and Automated Disaster Recovery (DR), demonstrating how the solution maintains “always-on” service levels across multiple cloud regions or providers. The category highlights excellence in chaos engineering and resilience testing, where technology is used to proactively inject faults and stress-test the system’s ability to self-heal.

Submissions should demonstrate how the solution minimizes Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), ensuring that mission-critical data and applications remain accessible during even the most severe outages.

Judges will look for evidence of proactive monitoring and predictive analytics that identify potential points of failure before they impact the business.

The category also encompasses the integration of resilience into the organizational culture, rewarding solutions that bridge the gap between IT recovery and broader business continuity planning.

Successful entries will provide clear evidence of proven uptime under stress, measurable improvements in recovery speeds, and a demonstrated ability to maintain “Business as Usual” during real-world or simulated disruptions. This category is open to resilience software vendors, managed service providers (MSPs), and in-house site reliability engineering (SRE) teams who are building the “indestructible” foundations of the modern enterprise.

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Example Use Cases

Cloud operational resilience solutions eligible for this award may either provide an outstanding broad solution, or exceptional specialized solutions in one of these areas (among others):

AI incident response
Ensuring organizations can maintain operations and rapidly recover from disruptions. Cloud resilience solutions provide automated backup, failover, and recovery capabilities to minimize downtime and data loss.

Typical use cases:

  • Automated disaster recovery orchestration
  • Cross-region data replication and failover
  • Continuous backup and recovery testing
  • Business continuity planning dashboards
  • Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) monitoring

Some examples of results from this application:

  • Reduced downtime during system outages
  • Faster recovery from operational disruptions
  • Improved confidence in disaster recovery readiness
  • Greater resilience against infrastructure failures

Security team monitoring environmental hazards
Providing continuous visibility into systems and services to detect issues early and respond effectively. Cloud resilience platforms combine monitoring, alerting, and automated response workflows.

Typical use cases:

  • Real-time infrastructure and application monitoring
  • Automated alerting and escalation workflows
  • Integrated incident management platforms
  • Root cause analysis and diagnostics tools
  • Service health dashboards

Some examples of results from this application:

  • Faster identification and resolution of incidents
  • Reduced mean time to detect (MTTD) and resolve (MTTR)
  • Improved system reliability and uptime
  • Greater operational visibility across environments

sustainable cloud solution
Designing infrastructure that can withstand failures without disrupting services. Cloud resilience solutions implement distributed architecture and automated redundancy to ensure continuity.

Typical use cases:

  • Multi-region and multi-zone deployment strategies
  • Load balancing and traffic rerouting
  • Automated infrastructure failover
  • Redundant service architecture
  • Chaos engineering and resilience testing

Some examples of results from this application:

  • Improved system availability and reliability
  • Reduced impact of infrastructure or service failures
  • Increased confidence in high-availability architecture
  • Greater resilience under peak demand or unexpected outages

Use of AI in DevOps to enable risk management
Supporting organizations in identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational risks. Cloud resilience platforms provide insights into vulnerabilities and help organizations prepare for potential disruptions.

Typical use cases:

  • Operational risk assessment and modelling
  • Scenario simulation and stress testing
  • Dependency mapping across systems and services
  • Resilience maturity benchmarking
  • Regulatory resilience reporting

Some examples of results from this application:

  • Improved preparedness for operational disruptions
  • Stronger organizational risk awareness
  • Reduced operational vulnerabilities
  • Clearer visibility into system dependencies

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Enhancing resilience through automated remediation and recovery processes. Cloud resilience solutions detect operational anomalies and trigger corrective actions to restore service continuity.

Typical use cases:

  • Automated incident remediation workflows
  • Self-healing infrastructure policies
  • Performance threshold-triggered scaling
  • Automated workload redistribution
  • Continuous resilience validation and testing

Some examples of results from this application:

  • Reduced service disruption during operational incidents
  • Faster restoration of normal service levels
  • Lower operational workload for recovery management
  • Increased overall system resilience

Hall of Fame: Previous Winners

Vultr stood out for delivering truly global, cloud native infrastructure that organizations can deploy and scale with confidence. Its combination of performance, transparent pricing, and rapid provisioning makes advanced compute accessible without hyperscaler lock in. The judges were particularly impressed by Vultr’s real world adoption and its role in supporting modern AI and high performance workloads. This made Vultr a clear winner at The Cloud Awards.”

Lead Judge, Maneet Bansal

Best Cloud Infrastructure 2025/26, Vultr
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Kion impressed the judges with a cloud management platform that brings governance, compliance, and operational control into a single, scalable approach. Its focus on policy driven automation and real world cloud governance reflects what enterprises actually need to manage complexity. The solution demonstrated clear maturity and category fit. This made Kion a deserving winner at The Cloud Awards.”

Judge, Sameer Band

Cloud Management Solution of the Year 2025/26, Kion
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CloudZero has redefined cloud cost management with a groundbreaking solution that automates expense allocation and provides real-time, business-aligned insights. By normalizing cloud spend into a unified data model and leveraging AI to detect anomalies, CloudZero empowers engineers and financial teams to manage costs proactively and strategically. Their innovative approach simplifies complex processes, ensuring cloud investments align with business objectives.”

Judge, Kaushik Patel

Cloud Management Solution of the Year 2024/25, CloudZero

Areas to Highlight in Your Submission

Judges score nominations across these five key areas:

  • Innovation: The features or technology that makes your cloud operational resilience solution unique - or transformed your market.

  • Impact: Evidence of the positive effect your cloud operational resilience solution has brought to your customers.

  • Scalability: How your solution grows or adapts to changing business needs, without significant upgrades or overhauls.

  • User Experience: How intuitive your cloud operational resilience solution is to use for users of varying roles or skill levels.

  • Relevance: What makes your solution a worthy winner in this particular category.

Although not formally scored, focus on these areas specific to this category, can help your nomination stand out:

Risk Identification

How the solution identifies risks and "blind spots" in the cloud architecture?

Strength

Includes the mechanisms in place to absorb a shock without dropping service.

Recovery

How quickly and accurately the last known good state can be restored?

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