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Amazon Cloud Drive Launches Unlimited Cloud Storage $5 per month
Amazon today announced unlimited cloud storage with Amazon Cloud Drive—two new storage plans for customers to securely store their existing content collections and automatically upload endless amounts of new content, including photos, videos, movies, music, and files. With the unlimited plans, customers no longer need to worry about how much storage is needed to keep their content safe and secure—they can choose either the Unlimited Photos Plan or Unlimited Everything Plan and only pay one flat fee per year. A free 3-month trial is available for customers to try either plan:
Unlimited Photos Plan (free 3-month trial, then $11.99 per year—equivalent of less than $1 per month): Store an infinite number of photos in Cloud Drive without worrying about taking up space on phones, cameras, or other devices. Customers can upload existing collections and store all future photos taken. This plan also includes 5 GB of additional storage for videos or other documents and files.
Unlimited Everything Plan (free 3-month trial, then $59.99 per year—equivalent of less than $5 per month): Store an infinite number of new and existing photos, videos, files, documents, movies, and music in Cloud Drive.
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Gotta love being able to upload data to NSA.
I hate this cloud storage nonsense. External hard disks and offline storage is more than enough for me.
It's hardly nonsense, offsite backups are a sensible precaution. I agree the marketing fluff is all bollocks, but that doesn't mean the product behind the fluff isn't worthwhile.
I tried to sign in with my UK amazon and it just redirected me to prime photo signup
Only for US?
Why would NSA be interested in looking at your data?
Right? After all the recent privacy scandals everyone seems to think they're important enough for the government to be monitoring them. Its more the principle than an actual threat.
Yeah NSA is whatever, just use encryption (as you would anyways).
However this:
is why you never sign up to an "unlimited" storage service, certainly not paying $60 upfront on a yearly basis. They may invent all sorts of arbitrary restrictions if they decide that you (or users in general) use "too much" of the "unlimited" storage.
Not directly but of course if the NSA taps data links they get YOUR data as well - Sure, now you can argue "i don't have anything to hide" but with that mindset this discussion is useless...
I'm guessing to have "unlimited" cloud storage you'd also have to have unlimited local storage, as this is sort of Dropbox-like (i.e., a replicated folder) -?
Not quite, but i should have about 20 TB around. It is trivial to add it up with almost any os and make a big folder.
However, as rm_ said, who knows what limits would they put, i had unlimited crashplan, but with 1 mbps, it was useless for anything meaningful. It tried to upload a 200 GB file for a month, and then I gave up, never went past 10%.
Considering that Dropbox has their plans hosted on Amazon's S3 service (as well has Carbonite, etc.), this makes sense.
For your photos, you're unable to share a folder/album. You can only share one photo at a time. Upload is slow. iPhone app is unable to create folders. I get it for free with my Amazon Prime subscription, and don't use it.
I can't speak to privacy concerns, but the relevant /r/datahoarders thread speaks to the transfer rate.
Seems to be an awesome subreddit and they even have a 130 people IRC channel on Freenode.
Probably not something that pleases them either. Amazon wants to be the back end of everything and they seem to be on a path to taking the front ends as well. Congrats to them if they pull it off, but it's gotta frustrate startups that use them.
I don't use these services because it's hard to maintain local copies like this.
Does anyone have a windows PC and 100TB 1Gbps who wants to try and upload lots?
That's amazing considering you can use CloudDrive with FireTV. Anybody knows a way to use this with a not-us account?
You need a credit card that accepts USA address as a valid billing address I think.
Well, I have one, I often buy game codes on amazon.com but it unfortunately always redirects me to the german cloud drive if I sign in through that page.
Thanks for the Reddit group, was not aware of it.
I wonder how much storage space Amazons keeps on demand. I know in 2010 people were estimating an exabyte of data in total was stored by Amazon - but that was 5 years ago.
No Linux support, but the open REST'ful API looks nice. I always like writing code for Amazon's API's, they actually think about the design. I might try to make a cli client for Linux then.
https://developer.amazon.com/public/apis/experience/cloud-drive/content/nodes
EDIT: And the Windows client is written in C#, makes sense why its only on Windows.
Google+ gives you unlimited photo's and video's backup so long as your photos does not exceed 75 MB or 2048x2048 pixels in size and videos no longer than 15 min.. other wise it gets uploaded to google drive and counts towards your 15GB limit.
Works for Android, ios, mac/pc.
And it's free!
Still waiting for the cloud storage that supports rsync, which is more affordable than a dedicated server with the same amount of storage space.
Works for me, but I have got prime so possibly why.
Guess my 25TB pr0n collection will have a new home. Hehe.
An Yottabyte?
Because an exabyte of data is created on the Internet each day.