Artifact Management platforms store, version, and distribute the binary outputs of the build process — container images, language packages (npm, Maven, PyPI, Go modules, NuGet, Cargo), OS packages, Helm charts, ML models, and generic binary artifacts — alongside their metadata, signatures, and provenance. Core capabilities include universal multi-format binary repositories, proxy and cache of public registries (reliability against upstream outages), retention and cleanup policies, access control and promotion workflows (dev → staging → prod), vulnerability-scanning integration, SBOM and signature generation for supply-chain provenance, and CDN-backed distribution. The category is the binary counterpart to source control — the supply-chain chokepoint between build and deploy. Leading vendors include JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, and Cloudsmith.