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Apple does operate its own infrastructure. It has numerous, exceptionally large data centers in the USA, Europe and China. Most notable is the $1 billion, 500,0
by sjwright 11y ago
Apple does operate its own infrastructure. It has numerous, exceptionally large data centers in the USA, Europe and China. Most notable is the $1 billion, 500,000 square foot facility in Maiden, North Carolina.
Apple probably augments their own infrastructure with cloud providers for various reasons, e.g. increasing geographic diversity, allowing for progressive growth, and to handle comparatively small jobs (e.g. merely a few hundred VMs).
I imagine it would also be a waste of Apple's time to tool up their own data centers to offer general purpose cloud computing services.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoApple doesn't have "numerous" facilities. Compared to Google or Amazon they have very few. They really only have two worth mentioning, and having only two is the most expensive thing you can do, with 50% natural overhead.
- tallanvor 11y agoApple has at least 5 data centers in the US alone. And it makes sense that the overall size of their facilities would be much smaller than Amazon, Google, or Microsoft... They're not running a major search engine or offering anything like AWS, GC, or Azure.
- robzyb 11y agoHow much diversifiable overhead does a data center have? My spidey-sense is telling me that its very little.
- sjwright 11y agoA trivial Google search shows that you are entirely incorrect. And comparisons to Google or Amazon are unreasonable, as both these companies sell cloud services. Apple does not.