01-Aug-2017, 12:27
Just as raph972 says: they are almost certainly hitting Amazon and Microsoft for the AWS and Azure services respectively, which act as a kind of CDN (content delivery network).
This is basically like a huge hard drive on the internet where you can store stuff (in the cloud), and then deliver it quicker to the end user because you can choose to locate that hard drive physically closer to the user.
There's nothing sinister about those IP addresses. I don't know what Spark is making those connections for, but those are not shocking or unexpected endpoints.
This is basically like a huge hard drive on the internet where you can store stuff (in the cloud), and then deliver it quicker to the end user because you can choose to locate that hard drive physically closer to the user.
There's nothing sinister about those IP addresses. I don't know what Spark is making those connections for, but those are not shocking or unexpected endpoints.
