According to The Information, Apple has significantly increased the number of iCloud user information it stores on Google Cloud.According to the report, Apple has more than eight million terabytes worth of data stored on Google's servers. Apple is expected to spend approximately $300 million this year on Google cloud storage services. This would be an increase of around 50% from 2020. Apple is believed to be the biggest corporate client for Google Cloud, surpassing Spotify and other prominent customers.Google Cloud employees have apparently given Apple an internal codename that suggests Apple's size as a customer: Bigfoot.Apple stores user data such as photos and messages in a mix of third-party cloud storage services and its own data centers. Apple doesn't give third-party cloud storage providers the keys to decrypt user information stored on their servers. This ensures a high level of security.According to the report, Apple's increasing use of Google Cloud may indicate that its growing cloud storage needs have outpaced its ability develop and operate the data centers necessary to handle the data.
