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Apple does use S3 for storage. You didn't hear it from me.

• RKearney 10y ago
  They 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 ago
      https://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 ago
    and Google Cloud Storage as well!
• ghshephard 10y ago
  You 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 ago
    All 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.
    • AckSyn 10y ago
      lost -i in the Terminal.app will do this as well. With a little grep-fu you could have yourself a good watchdog.
      • blowski 10y ago
        I get 'command not found' so I'm assuming I have to install something? But I can't find anything when I search Google because of the generic name.
        • syassami 10y ago
          I believe he meant to write `lsof -i`
          • blowski 10y ago
            That works a lot better! Thanks both.
          • AckSyn 10y ago
            oh i'm still not used to the autocorrect on OS X. Thank you for correcting my error.
  • blowski 10y ago
    Indeed, 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...