{"id":1435,"date":"2011-06-15T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2011-06-15T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T11:06:17","slug":"is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple really using Windows Azure to power iCloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, I received a couple of tips claiming that Apple was a Windows Azure customer.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I just dismissed the tips as nothing but a crazy rumor. Then I got more serious and started asking around, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>But once Apple launched the beta of its iCloud iMessage service, the Infinite Apple site, along with a few other blogs, analyzed the traffic patterns and found that Apple appeared to be using both Azure and Amazon Web Services for hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/microsoft\/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud\/9687\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/microsoft\/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud\/9687\">http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/microsoft\/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud\/9687<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, I received a couple of tips claiming that Apple was a Windows Azure customer. At first, I just dismissed the tips as nothing but a crazy rumor. Then I got more serious and started asking around, to no avail. But once Apple launched the beta of its iCloud iMessage service, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}