Pavel Durov denies use of third-party cloud services for Telegram

Telegram does not use external cloud services to support the messenger’s infrastructure. This was announced by Pavel Durov.

“We do not use external cloud services, such as Google Cloud, Amazon and others. Relying on third parties to store data would be bad for privacy as well as efficiency.”

He added that all servers and routers used to run the messenger belong to the developers, who built the entire infrastructure themselves.

“It took us several years to develop technology for instant synchronization of encrypted data between our data centers and encryption of local storage in each of them in such a way as to make any data-center breach and server capture pointless. The encryption keys used to protect Telegram’s cloud are split into parts and are never stored in the same place as the information they protect,” — said the Telegram founder.

According to Durov, in 2018, during Telegram’s blockage in Russia, Amazon refused them cloud services:

“When Russia blocked Telegram in 2018, we set up independent proxy servers on AWS Amazon so that users in Russia could freely use Telegram. Amazon fairly quickly refused access to its services, and I was told that this was Jeff Bezos’s position,” Pavel Durov said.

Also he noted that he would not introduce targeted and 30-second advertising in the messenger. Advertisements will appear only in large public channels.

Earlier, Pavel Durov said that he plans to monetize Telegram from 2021. He said that for many years he funded the company with his own money, but costs rose as the user base grew.

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