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They mostly run on Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2. They also don't really work. iMessage is unreliable at best, and iTunes match just makes home taping look pr
by nwh 13y ago
They mostly run on Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2.
They also don't really work. iMessage is unreliable at best, and iTunes match just makes home taping look preferable.
- _djo_ 13y agoIf that were true they wouldn't need the large data centres they're building. My understanding, from when the references to Azure and Amazon CloudFront (not EC2) were first discovered in iCloud traffic, was that Apple was using Microsoft and Amazon's CDN services, amongst others, to serve static content. I've seen no indication that the core guts of iMessage et al live anywhere but inside Apple's own data centres.
- nwh 13y agoI based those statements on my own observations, though I've never had the time to go and dig any deeper. iMessages push layer did seen to sit on EC2 though, which would imply that other parts of it did too.