Apple has recently announced that CloudKit, OS X and iOS framework that provides access to Apple’s cloud platform, is now open to server-to-server web requests. This removes the previous restriction that limited access to CloudKit public database only from iOS and Mac apps and through Apple’s web site.
CloudKit server-to-server requests adds up to previously existing features that allowed developers to providing a web interface so users could access their iCloud data. Server-to-server requests aim to give access to iCloud public database and could partially provide an alternative to Parse DBaaS, whose shutdown has been recently announced.
