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Telegram does not use Amazon servers

There was a question in Durov's chat. What happens if AWS (Amazon Web Services) stops serving Telegram if it doesn’t delete some posts and channels?

Pavel Durov did not answer the question, but a few days later he wrote this:

“Telegram does not rely on Amazon or other third party cloud services. We have created our own secure cloud infrastructure distributed around the world.

It took us several years to develop a technology which could instantly synchronize encrypted data between our data centers in a way to make it useless to hack into any data center and take over servers.

The encryption keys we used to secure Telegram Cloud are segmented and never stored in the same location as the information they protect.

As a result, our approach is more advanced and secure than what Amazon or any of these cloud services offer. And since we have our own infrastructure, no Amazon can block us.

Plus, we have no illusions about Amazon. ... When Russia banned Telegram in 2018 (read more here https://t.me/durov/80), we installed the independent proxy servers on AWS Amazon so that our Russian users could communicate freely on Telegram.

Amazon quickly denied us access to its services. At that time, Amazon managers told us they had to do this to protect their business, but as a result, they also opposed censorship.

Other providers like Digital Ocean have been much more helpful when it comes to setting up proxy servers to protect freedoms in Russia and elsewhere. "

It turns out that Telegram has been using its own servers for a long time and is completely independent. A big step forward.