( CNBC noticed this change in the guide in February previously, Apple had listed S3 and Microsoft Azure.)Īpple notes that it encrypts the files it stores on other services by breaking them into “chunks” and using strong encryption on each piece. Other third-party services may also be used, as Apple’s language says “such as” those two, not exclusively them. The long answer follows.Īpple disclosed in its iOS Security Guide in January 2018 that it stored iCloud file data in both Amazon and Google’s commercial cloud storage systems (Amazon S3 and Google Cloud). The short answer: You can’t know precisely, though most of your actual file data is on Google or Amazon servers.
“What data/services are hosted/stored on Apple-owned data centers and which data/services are hosted/stored on Google data centers? A web search as well as Apple forums provide no details on this.” Macworld reader Craig has a question about that, having read that Apple stores some of its iCloud data on other companies’ servers. When you use a cloud-based service, your actions and data may be split among many machines and drives-maybe even across continents. This can be for storage, like iCloud Drive or Amazon Cloud Drive or Google Drive, or for computation and other more specialized purposes. Cloud computing refers to an aggregation of servers that you don’t have to know much about to gain the benefit. “The cloud” is a concept, not a place, although collectively, the cloud is made up of places.
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