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- National Enquirer appears to host its website with Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing branch.
- The match is a difficult match.
- Last month, Enquirer revealed the link between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and a former TV presenter.
- On Thursday, Bezos accused the investigator of attempting to "extort and blackmail him", using intimate photos of the executive as a means of pressure.
Politics, as they say, creates strange friends. Similarly, it seems, web hosting.
The National Enquirer, which CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, accused Thursday of attempting to extort and blackmail him, appears to host his website on Amazon Web Services' servers, the cloud computing unit of the technology giant.
Read it: The CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, accused the editor of National Enquirer of having "extorted" bad photos in an extraordinary blog post
The underlying IP addresses of the Enquirer site are badigned to Amazon. The records badociated with these addresses list Amazon as the owner.
Ryan Huber, a security architect for Slack's corporate email company, pointed to the connection in a message posted on Twitter. Business Insider confirmed the connection.
"Dear Mr Bezos, I will leave this here," he says in a tweet.
Representatives of Amazon and American Media, Enquirer's parent company, did not immediately respond to a request for comment or confirmation of their business relationship.
Last month, Enquirer published an exhibition on the Bezos affair with former TV presenter Lauren Sanchez. In response, Bezos opened an investigation into how information about his relationships, including racy texts, had been disclosed to Enquirer. The Bezos investigator suggested that the leaks could have been motivated by political considerations.
In an extraordinary blog post, Bezos said that American Media, the parent company of Enquirer, had threatened to publish new racy pictures of him and Sanchez, unless he would like to disown the idea that the text of Enquirer was motivated by politics. Bezos said it would have been a "lie".
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