Autonomous system
AS714 APPLE-ENGINEERING
Hosting ARIN Content
Summary
Apple Inc.
corporate cloud cdn
Apple's Autonomous System, carrying iCloud, the App Store, iMessage, Apple Music, software updates, and Apple's corporate traffic.
What it's used for
- Serving Apple's first-party services and device software updates.
- Backing iCloud and related account/sync endpoints (some of which also ride on third-party clouds behind the scenes).
Notable
- Apple runs its own CDN for software updates and media, reducing dependence on third-party CDNs for its largest download events.
- iCloud Private Relay egress uses partner networks rather than exiting solely from this ASN, so relay traffic may appear under other operators.
Interesting
- Apple holds the entire legacy
17.0.0.0/8block — one of the few single companies to own a full historic Class A allocation (16.7M addresses).
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 78 exchanges in 20 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.213.181 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.223 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.147 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.160 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.112 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.161 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.237.176 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.107 |
Transit providers
85 upstream, 2 downstream and 142 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1,437 prefixes · 16.92M addresses IPv6 789 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2,226 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS714- Registry name
- APPLE-ENGINEERING
- Registrant
- Apple Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@apple.com
- Last changed
- 2025-04-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Apple Inc.
- Also known as
- Apple CDN AS6185
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-APPLE- Present at
- 83 exchanges
- Facilities
- 71 facilities
- Website
- https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2,008 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS714
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2,008 of 2,008 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,807 naming AS714
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere