Obi connecting to this Amazon address?

[neftv]

What is this address that Obi is connecting to? 
ec2-204-236-134-243.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (204.236.134.243)

It seems to be related to Amazon.  Why is that happening?

Amazon.com, Inc.
OrgId:          AMAZO-4
Address:        Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2
Address:        1200 12th Avenue South
City:           Seattle
StateProv:      WA
PostalCode:     98144
Country:        US
RegDate:        2005-09-29
Updated:        2009-06-02
Comment:        For details of this service please see
Comment:        http://ec2.amazonaws.com/
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/AMAZO-4

[jimates]

there has been no definite response from Obihai, but the question was presented before.

http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=235.msg1044#msg1044

http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=311.msg1577#msg1577

[shap]

Amazon is a hosting solution for Obi servers. Amazon provide a cloud solutions for the companies that do not want to implement a private cloud.