End User Awards
The best practitioners in open source. Every year the CNCF recognizes the organizations that don't just adopt cloud native technologies — they push them to their limits in production, share what they learn, and give their work back to the community. The Top End User Award honors the end user organization making the most significant contributions to the cloud native ecosystem.
These are the companies whose clusters, pipelines, and platforms prove what cloud native can do at scale.
Top End User Award
SNCF
Modernized its infrastructure by migrating 70% of 2,000 applications to the cloud, using Kubernetes as a consistent control plane across 200+ clusters.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Amsterdam
Top End User Award
Michelin
Recognized for significantly advancing cloud native development internally and across the wider CNCF community.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Atlanta
Top End User Award
ANT Group
Recognized for pioneering cloud native scalability and shaping the future of open source services.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London
Top End User Award
Adobe
Contributed to 46 CNCF projects and shared a reference architecture for its Internal Developer Platform.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Salt Lake City
Top End User Award
CERN
The research leader recognized as an exceptional end user of cloud native technologies in scientific computing.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Paris
Top End User Award
Spotify
Recognized for the second time for significant contributions to and involvement in the cloud native community.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Chicago
Top End User Award
Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
Runs nearly 1,000 Kubernetes clusters in production designing technology for the automotive giant.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Amsterdam
Top End User Award
Intuit
A CNCF member since early 2018 and a generous contributor and supporter of the cloud native ecosystem.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Detroit
Top End User Award
Apple
Recognized for its adoption of cloud native technologies and contributions back to the ecosystem.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Valencia
Top End User Award
Spotify
The world's most popular audio streaming service, recognized for its numerous contributions to the cloud native community.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Virtual
Top End User Award
Zalando
The German e-commerce company recognized for significant contributions to and involvement in the cloud native community.
Announced virtually
Top End User Award
DiDi
The leading transportation platform recognized for contributions to open source big data and AI technologies.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China, Shanghai
Top End User Award
Intuit
The financial technology company recognized for contributions to the cloud native community.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Barcelona
Top End User Award
JD.com
The Chinese online retail giant recognized for contributions to the cloud native end user community.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, Shanghai
Top End User Award
Bloomberg
The financial software leader recognized for contributions to the cloud native ecosystem.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Copenhagen
Nominate an organization
Any end user organization can be nominated for the Top End User Award, though winners cannot repeat in consecutive years. Nominations open ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon — watch the CNCF End User Community page and community channels for the call for nominations.
Looking for the individual community awards (Top Committer, Top Documentarian, Chop Wood Carry Water, and friends)? Those live with the contributor community at contribute.cncf.io.