{"id":250485,"date":"2018-02-27T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T09:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=250485"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T09:18:01","slug":"apple-uses-google-cloud-services-for-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/250485-apple-uses-google-cloud-services-for-icloud.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple uses Google Cloud services for iCloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed it uses Google Cloud services for iCloud, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/26\/apple-confirms-it-uses-google-cloud-for-icloud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/158873-apple-now-using-google-cloud-for-some-icloud-data.html\">reports from Recode in 2016<\/a><\/strong> which stated that Apple used Google Cloud to ensure it wasn&#8217;t dependent on the infrastructure of rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Recode said that much of iCloud is hosted with Amazon Web Services, and some with Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC has now reported that Apple&#8217;s latest update to its\u00a0<strong><a class=\"inline_asset\" title=\"https:\/\/images.apple.com\/business\/docs\/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/images.apple.com\/business\/docs\/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf\">iOS Security Guide<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0suggests Apple has switched to Amazon and Google.<\/p>\n<p>It reported that until recently, the\u00a0document contained language indicating that iCloud services relied on Amazon Web Services and\u00a0Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/214322-apple-slashes-price-of-2tb-icloud-plan-new-south-african-pricing.html\">Apple slashes price of 2TB iCloud plan \u2014 New South African pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple confirmed it uses Google Cloud for iCloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[605,167,33897,607],"class_list":["post-250485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-google-cloud","tag-icloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250535,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250485\/revisions\/250535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}