Possible iPhone compromise?

Short version:
My iPhone 4s running iOS 7.0.3 is uploading massive amounts of data to AWS (the Amazon cloud) whenever it is plugged into a charger and idle. It's doing it so vigorously that it's capitalizing 100% of my internet connection's upload capacity. (I have a firewall which allows me to monitor traffic.)
I placed a bandwidth cap on the iPhone's IP address, and it has allowed other users on my network to be able to work once again.
The moment I unlock the phone, the upload ceases. All the traffic is headed to IP addresses owned by the Amazon cloud, and all of it is over port 443. If I leave the phone plugged in for a few minutes with the screen locked, the upload resumes.
Is there a way on the phone to determine which process is performing all this network traffic somehow? I'm concerned that the phone may have been compromised, espeically given that my firewall has also detected a malformed TCP packet attack originating from my iPhone. I've downloaded a utility which allows me to see individual processes, but it doesn't show me their network or CPU behavior. Plus, the settings area of the phone only shows app-based network statistics for cellular data, not wifi.
Has anyone else seen this behavior before? Does anyone know of any apps which might try to slam networks with upload data to the Amazon cloud? I'm scratching my head here bigtime. My phone is not jailbroken.

Sorry. I misread that.
The behavior you're describing sounds like it may be tying to perform an iCloud backup. Especially if most of the traffic is outbound.
If that's the case, you may want to turn off iCloud backups for the time being and back it up to your computer using iTunes instead. See if that solves the problem.

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