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

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 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.

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