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Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.
by api 10y ago
Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.
- luhn 10y agoAmazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers. Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.
- api 10y agoBGP? Tier-1 issues?
- alanh 10y agoAnd also Azure
- therein 10y agoApple does use S3 for storage. You didn't hear it from me.
- RKearney 10y agoThey also use AT&T and Azure for storage too. You did hear that from me, or anyone else with a firewall running on OS X.
- tedmiston 10y ago...AT&T for data storage?
- sethhochberg 10y agohttps://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Portfolio/cloud/ https://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Portfolio/cloud/ They're a massive company. When you already own telecom networks and run your own datacenters, selling cloud infrastructure services isn't too far fetched.
- conradev 10y agoand Google Cloud Storage as well!
- ghshephard 10y agoYou just have to run littlesnitch, and see all the AWS servers that Apple applications hit. I don't think it's a secret that a ton of Apple applications are backended by AWS.
- niels_olson 10y agoAll hail Little Snitch. So much insight available in that app. I wish there were rule sets for Little Snitch like there are for AdBlock Plus.
- blowski 10y agoIndeed, I've read multiple articles about it, some of which seem to have been fed by the Apple PR machine: http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-cuts-aws-spending-signs-with-google-report/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-cuts-aws-spending-signs-w...
- rconti 10y agoThey also use METRIC TONS of ultra high-end storage. Actually that's not saying much, because a single cabinet is around a metric ton. So it was unintentionally accurate.
- nstj 10y agoApple discusses who it uses for cloud storage when discussing iCloud in their security guide (valid as of May 2016): > The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure. [0]: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
- evanriley 10y agoThe only Apple thing that I know was on AWS was the beats1 radio thing when it launched, not sure if it still is.
- ghshephard 10y agoPhotos uses AWS for storage.
- akulbe 10y agoAWS status page is all green. http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/
- cookiecaper 10y agoJust for the record, our company has found that Amazon occasionally omits incidents from their status page, though I doubt they could get away with omitting something this significant.
- adt2bt 10y agoAll of the cloud providers have an incentive to downplay incidents and only post them to the status page when they're really bad. The bar is pretty high to get something on there.
- NeutronBoy 10y agoI mean, they outline them in their fineprint. Amazon doesn't consider the unavailability of 1 EC2 availability zone an outage because their position is that you should be architecting around that. 2 or more AZ outages in the same region and it'll show up on their status page IIRC.
- bigiain 10y ago"Occasionally"? <laugh>
- ChristianBundy 10y ago</laugh> Holy shit, you were laughing for 28 minutes straight. Are you alright?
- inopinatus 10y agoYou can tell who grew up in the XHTML era rather than SGML or HTML5.