Does iCloud utilize Microsoft Azure?

It seems so, according a report by InfiniteApple, our sister site. After someone used Charles ? a web debugging tool ? to set up a WiFi proxy on their iPad to see just what happens when you send an image over iMessage, the web traffic that occurred was intriguing: It appears that iCloud utilized Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon?s AWS cloud services in the process of sending the image.

To quote the InfiniteApple post, ?icloud.com provides some sort of?authentication?to a windows.net address, and then sends a confirmation back to iCloud. Image downloads come from an s3.amazonaws.com address.?

Apple have been constructing massive datacenters, presumably for iCloud. So why the need to also utilize these third-party cloud services created by competitors? Perhaps, due to the overwhelming amount data they anticipate will be uploaded/transmitted through iCloud, they may be using these services as some sort of CDN. We doubt that iCloud is entirely based off of these services, however.

It?s also possible that the use of these services is temporary, and once their own datacenters are fully operational, Apple will stop using these other providers altogether.

Microsoft declined comment on the matter.?For all the screenshots of the traffic that was sniffed out, check out InfiniteApple?s post.

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