We are excited to announce that Kion has been recognized as a Challenger and Fast Mover in the latest GigaOm Radar for Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) report! GigaOm has placed Kion in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, which identifies solutions that are flexible and responsive to the market, while also offering broad functionality and use case support.
This report examines 20 of the top CMP solutions in the market, comparing offerings against 14 key features and business criteria - including areas like Cross-Platform Management, Cost Governance (FinOps) and Automation Management – to help decision-makers evaluate the solutions to make better business decisions. This is the third year GigaOm has evaluated the CMP solution space.
GigaOm defines Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) as integrated tools that together manage and monitor cloud environments. These solutions are key to centralizing the control and governance of complex cloud environments.
Highlights from the report:
- Kion is a single, self-hosted platform that combines FinOps and CloudOps capabilities into one platform. It offers a comprehensive CMP designed to streamline and automate cloud operations at scale.
- Kion’s CMP is widely adopted across several regulated industries, including government, commercial enterprise, healthcare, and financial services.
- Enterprises benefit from Kion’s ability to streamline cloud operations, automate user provisioning, and enforce access control and financial management policies, which is crucial for organizations with extensive cloud footprints.
- Kion scored particularly high in the ‘Integrations’ and ‘SecOps’ features categories:
- Kion has a number of integrations with identity providers, OS vulnerability management and cloud security tools, ServiceNow ITSM and JIRA. It also integrates with monitoring tools, both cloud-native and third-party solutions.
- Kion is also 100% API-driven, allowing every action and every data point to be leveraged in an automated workflow.
- Kion excels in SecOps. It enforces security and compliance policies across multicloud environments. It provides over 8,000 built-in compliance checks to help monitor adherence to best practices for compliance.
- It never has access to an organization's data and can be installed in the cloud provider of choice. This is particularly important in highly regulated industries and for customers who are unwilling to give the access needed for remediation and automation to SaaS vendors.
Kion’s inclusion in the GigaOm Radar report underscores our commitment to delivering a platform that meets the needs of modern, complex, and regulated multicloud environments. As we continue to grow, we look forward to helping more organizations streamline and automate their cloud operations with confidence.
About Kion’s Automated CloudOps Platform:
Kion automates CloudOps and FinOps with a single platform providing policy-based cloud identity and permissions, financial management and enforcements, and compliance for multicloud infrastructure. Kion helps organizations achieve ‘governance by default’ through improved visibility, automation, guardrails, and guidance across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI environments. This helps enterprises reduce complexity, eliminate chaos, and minimize manual work so they can innovate faster with less risk.
As a self-hosted solution, Kion empowers organizations to confidently provision accounts, manage financial control, and enforce security and compliance policies across multicloud – without ever accessing customer data. This focus on security and compliance makes Kion an attractive choice for highly regulated industries. Kion serves leading commercial, higher education, and government agencies including Indeed, Verizon, NASA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
