Confirmed: Apple iCloud Does Not Stand Alone

[Guest BSchwarz]

Paul Paliath at Infinite Apple worked with my co-author Rafael Rivera to confirm that Apple’s iCloud cloud service does in fact use outside cloud services—including Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon S3—to do its thing. And what they’ve found is that iCloud doesn’t even (currently) host images sent over iCloud’s iMessage service. Instead, it places them on Azure (or S3) and links to them instead.