nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq8y4ntvtdldqw8dk2vupr36xl6gpfd0cpzqh5pjnwf8g0j4srnlrq3kj5lm (nprofile…j5lm) A good question. The answer is complicated:
**Hyperscale cloud providers** (like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) **buy (or directly invest in) capacity on submarine cables**.
They use this capacity to **move data between their own data centres in different regions**.
This traffic often travels over **private backbone networks**, meaning it **does not traverse the public internet in the usual sense** (i.e. it avoids third-party transit providers and public routing).
It runs over **private, controlled infrastructure** rather than the shared, publicly routed internet.
But at times it can briefly use public or semi-public paths.
Bill Bennett
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2026-04-04 07:35:16 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…eceh
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