The Arizona facility is planned to be a command center to manage its other data centers. It seems that AWS’s inability to load photos and videos quickly onto iOS devices might have something to do with the situation, and Apple executives are optimistic that a full cloud infrastructure could be profitable within the first three years of operation.
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Thomson Reuters DUV01-08 series on Apple(Reuters) – Apple Inc recently started using Google’s cloud service even as it simultaneously builds its own data centers to reduce its reliance on third-party service providers, technology news website Re/code reported, citing sources familiar with the deal. Although Google has been lagging behind Amazon and Microsoft’s Azure in the cloud computing market, it has gained ground since Diane Greene was named head of Google’s cloud business in November.
Only 6 percent of cloud users employ Google’s cloud infrastructure, while 17 percent use Microsoft and 57 percent use Amazon, according to a recent survey by cloud management provider RightScale.
This new development can be considered as the second win for Google in the past two weeks, as they succeeded in transforming Spotify as their new client.
This does not imply that Apple has totally abandoned AWS, but is still a customer.
Cupertino-based Apple has publicly unveiled data centre expansion plans worth up to $3.9bn in the US, Ireland and Denmark, topping 2.5mn sqf of extra hosting floor to power its iCloud and other services such as iTunes and the App Store.
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In February, Morgan Stanley’s analysts Katy Hubert and Brian Nowak suggested Apple could be planning to move away from AWS’s data centres as capital expenditure is up 30% this year. Considering the financial status Apple, it would have been ideal to go the Dropbox way, which also announced that it will be leaving AWS and instead move to its own cloud storage services. Apple is likely to operate more of these services internally in the coming years, at the expense of AWS.
