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It amazes me to find the number of competitors who use AWS as a platform while competing with Amazon.

Certainly tells something about customer service at Amazon.

You could say the same for Microsoft though. Or Oracle. Or SAP. I mean, iCloud runs on Azure so...

Is it confirmed that iCloud runs on Azure, or just rumor?

You can confirm it yourself. Look at the outgoing connections while using say Messages on OS X, they are going to azure domains.

Huh. I can't check it myself, but I'm surprised Apple doesn't route it through some Apple owned domain to mask their underlying service.

I just tried. It goes to an IP that resolves to Apple with WHOIS.

It's confirmed, Apple's Feb14 security whitepaper states:

"The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure."

But, as far as I know, they don't use Azure/Amazon for any non-storage functionality.

You could say same thing about Samsung.

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