Pros & Cons
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- Great service for backing up photos.
- Amazon Prime members get unlimited space for images.
- Good Web interface.
- Baked into Amazon devices.
- Auto-image backup feature for mobile devices.
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- Doesn't offer file-syncing.
- Desktop apps are extremely limited.
- Can't share folders, only files.
- Lacks important features like file versioning and scheduled backups.
If you think of Amazon Cloud Drive as a boutique service for backing up only your photos and nothing else, it's a wonderful and simple solution. Want enough space to store all those pictures from family birthday parties, vacations, and holidays? Amazon has you covered. Amazon Prime members get unlimited storage for images, and non-members can pay just $11.99 per year for the same privilege. But Amazon Cloud Drive is supposed to do more, and the problem is it doesn't—at least not nearly as well as many other cloud-based backup and storage solutions. It doesn't offer file-syncing, for example, so forget about having on-device access to the latest version of all your documents and images. Nor does it offer automated backup. Cloud Drive has limited sharing capabilities, no collaboration features, and a desktop application that's fairly worthless.
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Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Drive is an online storage service for your data, with a focus on photos. While it's generous with space for backing up images, a dearth of features leaves it behind many other excellent contenders.