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Amazon Drive is ending on December 31, 2023
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Amazon Drive is ending on December 31, 2023

donkodonko Member

I received this email hours ago... :'(

Dear Amazon Drive Customer,

Over the last 11 years, Amazon Drive has served as a secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files. On December 31, 2023, we will no longer support Amazon Drive to more fully focus our efforts on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos. We will continue to provide customers the ability to safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with Amazon Photos.

What this means for you:

You are receiving this email because you have files stored on Amazon Drive that are not supported by Amazon Photos. On December 31, 2023, you will no longer have access to Amazon Drive. Until then, you can continue to use Amazon Drive to manage your files.

If you rely on Amazon Drive for your file storage, you will need to go to the Amazon Drive website and download your files by December 31, 2023. As an Amazon customer your photo and video files have been automatically saved to Amazon Photos. Step-by-step instructions for downloading your files, managing your paid subscription, and resources for additional help can be found on our FAQ page.

As part of this process, on January 31, 2023, Amazon will no longer support uploading files on the Amazon Drive website. You will still be able to view and download files until December 31, 2023.

You can continue to use Amazon Photos for backing up and storing photo and video files. The Amazon Photos app can be downloaded on iOS, Android, and Desktop. Prime members get free, unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5 GB video storage. If you are not a Prime member, you get 5 GB of free storage for photos and video.

Thank you for being an Amazon customer.

The Amazon Drive team

Comments

  • Just got the email as well

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  • vyas11vyas11 Member

    4 months to upload and 17 months to download is a very generous time span.
    Unlike some providers who give till end of current month.

    Thanked by 3JasonM netomx kkrajk
  • JasonMJasonM Member
    edited July 2022

    for first two seconds i thought the post was about Amazon S3 :D

    Thanked by 1WebProject
  • VoidVoid Member

    Amazon what ?

  • @jmaxwell said: Amazon what ?

    Thanks, I thought I'm the only one who never knew about it's existence.
    Was it some kind of S3 for freeloaders? Or actually usable like a Google Drive?
    I don't remember it installed on any device as well, and I come across lots of them.

    Thanked by 1Void
  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @luckypenguin said:

    @jmaxwell said: Amazon what ?

    Thanks, I thought I'm the only one who never knew about it's existence.
    Was it some kind of S3 for freeloaders? Or actually usable like a Google Drive?
    I don't remember it installed on any device as well, and I come across lots of them.

    It was basically google drive and was unlimited for a good bit of time. As always people were dumping PB's upon PB's of porn on it.

    A few years back Amazon capped the amount of storage.

    Francisco

  • LeviLevi Member

    @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @LTniger said: @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

    Always type it :)

    Francisco

  • VoidVoid Member

    @Francisco said:

    @LTniger said: @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

    Always type it :)

    Francisco

    Is it because more than one person uses this account?

  • JabJabJabJab Member

    @vyas11 said: Unlike some providers who give till end of current month.

    We recently informed you that hubiC will be officially closed on 31/07/2022.

    Due to a large amount of files still present on the hubiC platform and in order to give you more time to recover them, we have decided to extend the hubiC services until September 30th, 2022.

    You have an extra month ^.-

    Thanked by 1vyas11
  • LeviLevi Member

    @jmaxwell said:

    @Francisco said:

    @LTniger said: @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

    Always type it :)

    Francisco

    Is it because more than one person uses this account?

    This is done in order to keep certain level of class among very old persons in hosting industry. I have observed few other examples, they all typed names by hand.

  • adlyadly Veteran

    @jmaxwell said:

    @Francisco said:

    @LTniger said: @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

    Always type it :)

    Francisco

    Is it because more than one person uses this account?

    One person, multiple personalities. ;)

    Thanked by 2Francisco dahartigan
  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Is it because more than one person uses this account?

    Nope. I used to not use 'Francisco' for my usernames, so I'd add it to the footer.

    In most places I now use 'Francisco' when it's available but I never kicked the habit. At this point it'd be weird for me not to sign off on a post.

    Francisco

    Thanked by 2adly netomx
  • LeviLevi Member

    @Francisco said:

    Is it because more than one person uses this account?

    Nope. I used to not use 'Francisco' for my usernames, so I'd add it to the footer.

    In most places I now use 'Francisco' when it's available but I never kicked the habit. At this point it'd be weird for me not to sign off on a post.

    Francisco

    But it is redundant. Your nickname already "Frankcisco", additional signsture is justa waste of bits and traffic. Could you please exclude signature in your answer?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @LTniger said: Could you please exclude signature in your answer?

    No.

    Francisco

  • ariq01ariq01 Member

    His name always will be typed

    Thanked by 3Francisco vyas11 kkrajk
  • I just found some old site backups from 2011 and downloaded them for safe keeping

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @LTniger said:

    @Francisco said:

    Is it because more than one person uses this account?

    Nope. I used to not use 'Francisco' for my usernames, so I'd add it to the footer.

    In most places I now use 'Francisco' when it's available but I never kicked the habit. At this point it'd be weird for me not to sign off on a post.

    Francisco

    But it is redundant. Your nickname already "Frankcisco", additional signsture is justa waste of bits and traffic. Could you please exclude signature in your answer?

    Are you derailing a thread?

    I'm sensing a warning ⚠️

    Thanked by 1WebProject
  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran
    edited July 2022

    @Francisco said: As always people were dumping PB's upon PB's of porn on it.

    Then they really need till the end of 2023 to download it back...

    lol, netomx a mod!

    The end is truly nigh :P

    P.S. Warning for derailing a thread? On LET? Okay, tomorrow is the end.

    Thanked by 1kkrajk
  • WebProjectWebProject Host Rep, Veteran
    edited July 2022

    We recently informed you that hubiC will be officially closed on 31/07/2022.

    hubiC never was great, as speed was slow.

    Thanked by 1netomx
  • @Francisco said:
    It was basically google drive and was unlimited for a good bit of time. As always people were dumping PB's upon PB's of porn on it.
    A few years back Amazon capped the amount of storage.

    What's great about Amazon drive is that they don't delete your data even after you stop the subscription. I stopped my subscription when they capped the storage and the 8TB of backups that I uploaded are still there.

  • @JabJab said:

    @vyas11 said: Unlike some providers who give till end of current month.

    We recently informed you that hubiC will be officially closed on 31/07/2022.

    Due to a large amount of files still present on the hubiC platform and in order to give you more time to recover them, we have decided to extend the hubiC services until September 30th, 2022.

    You have an extra month ^.-

    Your math is no good. August and September are two months extra.

    Thanked by 1JabJab
  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @Maounique said: lol, netomx a mod!

    Again, ha.

    Hi friend! I missed you!

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @Maounique said: Warning for derailing a thread?

    Warnings for everyone!

  • @LTniger said:
    @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

    It's pretty wanky IMO, I just assume it's so he can remember how to spell his name or something.

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  • edited July 2022

    @dahartigan said:

    @LTniger said:
    @Francisco a bit of topic but I have to ask: do you always type your name at the end of the post or have it on a hotkey to paste?

    It's pretty wanky IMO, I just assume it's so he can remember how to spell his name or something.

    or just plain old autism
    Ass Burgers

  • szarkaszarka Member

    Young Whippersnappers: Signing your name is so lame.

    Me: Bring back 3-line .sig blocks, properly delimited with a "-- \n"

    Thanked by 2Erisa dahartigan
  • titustitus Member
    edited July 2022

    5-10 years ago started a trend: the internet was full with 'free cloud" and they was close to the 'unlimited storage' services. If someone reached they limits just created a new account or signed up to another free "limited" cloud drive provider, or paid a small extra fee for a very larger storage capacity (etc). Lot of people stopped using their own solutions (NAS, office servers, etc) and noow - after this cloud services become a part of our life - this platforms started to charging big money for the previously free or really cheap services or just simply closing it (Samsung Cloud Drive, Google Apps Legacy(Drive), etc..). :)

    Thanked by 1hostdare
  • pacopaco Member

    well, i guess this set of amazon drive developer's keys that i've held onto for all this time is worthless

    Thanked by 1netomx
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