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Did Apple not continue to use Oracle software as the backend to iCloud?

• coldtea 8y ago
  That's not any real dependency as having millions of consumer installations... The have iCloud abstracted and diversified anyway (also uses Azure, AWS, etc).
  • atombender 8y ago
    Apple actually no longer uses Azure. They use AWS (S3) and Google Cloud: https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.....
    • 4ad 8y ago
      Wrong link?
      • atombender 8y ago
        No. The section about iCloud says: The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as S3 and Google Cloud Platform. The 2017 version of this document had "Azure" in this list. The 2018 version replaces it with Google Cloud.
        • coldtea 8y ago
          Yeah, but it also says "such as", so it might not be exhaustive.
        • 4ad 8y ago
          Oh, okay, I only searched by "Amazon", "AWS", and "Azure", and didn't find anything.
  • hb3b 8y ago
    They use whatever tool is best for the job. Take a look at their careers site, you'll see they use all sorts of databases internally. Sr. Database Architect REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS : RDBMS: Oracle NoSQL DB: MongoDB Columnar DB: Vertica OS: AIX, LINUX, Solaris Replication: Streams, Golden Gate
• savoytruffle 8y ago
  Even today if you look at the headers in a message to or from an iCloud email account, it indicates "Oracle Communications Messaging Server" and years ago it was the same, but replace Oracle with Sun. I think they may well have been using the same thing since iTools email started back in January 2000.