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Hang on a minute. I've reverse-engineered icloud and I have personally verified that it is hosted, in significant part, on AWS and Azure. Is Apple buying some

• api 12y ago
  ... or does Greenpeace have a clue what they're talking about?
• gress 12y ago
  When did you perform that verification? I know they started out by hosting storage chunks on AWS and Azure in 2011, but they have massively increased their own data center capacity since then. Have you reverified recently?
  • wcchandler 12y ago
    And "how" was it verified? When Apple was building a large datacenter in North Carolina[1], a lot of local techies were saying it was for 2 purposes -- Siri and iCloud. Granted, that was the popular technology at the time for Apple, so it may have been inferred knowledge, and not directly stated... I also wouldn't be surprised if they used AWS/Azure for load balancing, geodns, routing and simple filtering before actually being tunneled in to their datacenter. [1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/25/apples-icloud-reigning-over-the-greenest-data-centers-on-the-planet http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/25/apples-icloud-reig...
  • tehwebguy 12y ago
    Images sent to me through iMessage come to my computer via AWS (verified when someone sent me an image like 10 minutes ago)