I really hope they don't get acquired by one of the big cloud providers.

I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other. I would suspect AAPL would be the buyer. It is a big risk for all iOS apps to be backed by infrastructure belonging to other companies they compete with in consumer devices. I think AAPL would want to make another option available.

I guess iCloud is hosted on AWS? I never actually looked. It doesn't seem to be that big of an issue for Apple though. And if it did happen I guess that wouldn't be so bad, I mean it could be worse. Oracle could decide to get into the cloud business by buying out DO.

I'm pretty sure iCloud is hosted on Apple's servers now.

A couple months ago on HN, a graph of cloud spending for the big Ns came out and Apple has slowly moved everything onto their own server in 2017/2018

If I remember correctly, iCloud is actually hosted by Google.

This was never the case. They are self hosted and for a while they hosted a fair bit of data on Azure & AWS. Not sure if they still use Azure and AWS, but iCloud has never been on Google's infra. (Other Apple content has been served by Google at various times, maps being the big/ obvious one)

As of 2018, I believe they moved it to Google[1][2].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-clo...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-googl...

They are hosted on all three, AWS, GCP, and Azure as well as on their own Server in their own DC.

thats a good point. For Oracle they should be appealing.

> I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other

Companies buy competitors all the time.

For acquirers, it makes more sense for it to be some other company that wants to add 'cloud provider' to their list of services. To avoid losing their customers to amazon or google or MS.

Which seems like a good reason for the big ones to swallow it up.

Or at least drive the price up in a bidding war. Whoever actually needs it the most will pay the most.

Someone mentioned Cloudflare as a possible acquirer which makes a lot more sense than one of the big providers. Though I wouldn't be too surprised to see Google pick them up either.

Cloudflare already controls a significant portion of the Internet. I really hope they do not swollow DO.

Do founder above just said no sale