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by drewcrawford 4254 days ago
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 kind of carbon offset? Or has Greenpeace gotten the information wrong? Or did things change in the year or so since I looked at this?
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gress 4254 days 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?

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wcchandler 4254 days 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-reig...

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tehwebguy 4254 days ago
Images sent to me through iMessage come to my computer via AWS (verified when someone sent me an image like 10 minutes ago)
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api 4254 days ago
... or does Greenpeace have a clue what they're talking about?
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