Given that Apple is just reselling various cloud storage services
Do you have a cite for this claim?
Apple has built a number of giant data centers. They shouldn't need to resell cloud storage.
Do you have a cite for this claim?
Apple has built a number of giant data centers. They shouldn't need to resell cloud storage.
http://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Also, if you have a Mac (or I believe the PC iCloud app now supports iCloud Photo Library uploads), you can watch your network traffic, and last time I checked it also was connecting to some Amazon/AWS domains[1].
[1]: Others have also found the same-- http://appinstructor.com/blog/2015/apple-using-amazon-s3-sto...
Use Little Snitch firewall and you will see it.