Amazon Cloud Drive Launches Unlimited Cloud Storage

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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.
 
For $3 more a month you could get office 365 with 5 Office installs, 1TB of storage (soon to be upgraded to "unlimited").

Is this really a deal?

Would use it maybe if it was free with Prime.
 
XeenSD said:
For $3 more a month you could get office 365 with 5 Office installs, 1TB of storage (soon to be upgraded to "unlimited").

Is this really a deal?

Would use it maybe if it was free with Prime.
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and 60 minutes of Skype calling per month
 
Hmmmm, I think I might use this. Currently backing up phone photos with Google+ Automatic backup which is kind of a joke.
 
Is there backup software that will work with Amazon Cloud Storage?
 
Don't think I have enough upload bandwidth to back up my HTPC, let alone the rest of my systems.

Besides, it would take me over 3 months just for the HTPC, and would blow through my cap every month.

Only way I could ever use online backups is if Goggle fiber expanded to my city. :(
 
Altdrive is still cheaper if all you want is unlimited backup for everything.

The announcement also doesn't specify if the photos are only allowed to be stored in a lossy format, or if they will allow you to back up RAW files.
 
Does anybody see any mention of a maximum allowed file size? I dont see anything in the terms and conditions.

Microsoft has a maximum file size limitation for their storage.
 
TechLarry said:
Is there backup software that will work with Amazon Cloud Storage?
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Other than the Amazon app, not that I could find.

I have not tried it, but it looks like you can backup as many devices as you want.

If the app actually lets you do a real backup instead of everything being manual, it might be worth it.
 
Hmm, already pay for Crashplan unlimited (same price as this new Amazon offering). My renewal comes up next month... probably won't change though. I've been really happy with Crashplan and considering I have about 2.5TB of data backed up there.. I wouldn't want to start that upload process over again ;)

Besides, Crashplan has a nice application I just set up on my file server, tell it what folders to backup, and forget about it. We've got Prime, but have never used the photo storage because I've never found an automatic client to back up the 100GB+ of photos my wife has taken over the years... no way am I using a "drag and drop" web interface to move all those files. Same reason she stopped using Shutterfly and other photo-specific options.
 
2 things:

1. I see the key word "files" but does this mean everything? ISOs? .tar.gz?
2. Does Unlimited support NFS/AFP/SMB shares or do I have to hook everything up via USB and 'cheat' like I do with backblaze?


I also 2nd the question about file size limitation. from VH. What's the biggest file size we can upload? 4GB?
 
I signed up for the 3 month trial. I already uploaded a 15GB Video file and no issues. Re downloaded it fast too.

I like this service. I am going to upload as much data as I can in the 3 months I have the trial for and see how it is.
 
jordan12 said:
I signed up for the 3 month trial. I already uploaded a 15GB Video file and no issues. Re downloaded it fast too.
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That brings up further questions:

1. Was this off a local drive or a network share? I know there's a GUI that you can upload files to.

2. Is there a throttling mechanism that Crashplan and the rest have where if you are uploading TBs of files they will force your speeds to nothing?
 
Bigdady92 said:
That brings up further questions:

1. Was this off a local drive or a network share? I know there's a GUI that you can upload files to.

2. Is there a throttling mechanism that Crashplan and the rest have where if you are uploading TBs of files they will force your speeds to nothing?
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Mine was off of my drivepool, but local drive.

And when I used crashplan, it throttled my connection down drastically. But I then went to SOS backup and no throttling. I have almost 10 TB backed up on SOS.

But that is only for one machine. This amazon one can be for all of my devices. I installed the android one, and love it. Might just keep the amazon one as a secondary backup..
 
I just tried a system image backup from 8.1 and it did no list the cloud drive as a storage location. I'm not surprised mind you, but I wanted to look :)
 
Where is the third party integration that allows me to encrypt the data before it leaves my control? I already backup to AWS using Cloudberry with AES and this could be promising if there is third party integration.
 
Bigdady92 said:
2 things:

1. I see the key word "files" but does this mean everything? ISOs? .tar.gz?
2. Does Unlimited support NFS/AFP/SMB shares or do I have to hook everything up via USB and 'cheat' like I do with backblaze?


I also 2nd the question about file size limitation. from VH. What's the biggest file size we can upload? 4GB?
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I read through the terms and conditions and there was some verbiage that stated they will not accept certain file extensions. They of course didnt list what is and is not allowed, but the verbiage is there.


jordan12 said:
I signed up for the 3 month trial. I already uploaded a 15GB Video file and no issues. Re downloaded it fast too.

I like this service. I am going to upload as much data as I can in the 3 months I have the trial for and see how it is.
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Thanks for being a guinea pig, I was hoping the file size limitation was at least 4 or 5gb, 15gb is plenty :D
 
Oh this is all great and everything until you realize that the price tag doesn't include your friggin data caps!

It's nice to be be able to use terabytes of cloud storage, but it's not nice to run out of the bandwidth to use that storage and then paying out the butt to access your data. =_=;
 
cyclone3d said:
Altdrive is still cheaper if all you want is unlimited backup for everything.

The announcement also doesn't specify if the photos are only allowed to be stored in a lossy format, or if they will allow you to back up RAW files.
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How does Altdrive police their service? I have all my devices back up to a central server at my home. Would having one license allow that to be backed up? Backups of backups?
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
Oh this is all great and everything until you realize that the price tag doesn't include your friggin data caps!

It's nice to be be able to use terabytes of cloud storage, but it's not nice to run out of the bandwidth to use that storage and then paying out the butt to access your data. =_=;
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I don't have any caps :D lucky me, but i also only have 2Mb upload... :(
 
I am up to 30 GB of stuff uploaded and is continuing to upload at a very good rate
 
farscapesg1 said:
Hmm, already pay for Crashplan unlimited (same price as this new Amazon offering). My renewal comes up next month... probably won't change though. I've been really happy with Crashplan and considering I have about 2.5TB of data backed up there.. I wouldn't want to start that upload process over again ;)

Besides, Crashplan has a nice application I just set up on my file server, tell it what folders to backup, and forget about it. We've got Prime, but have never used the photo storage because I've never found an automatic client to back up the 100GB+ of photos my wife has taken over the years... no way am I using a "drag and drop" web interface to move all those files. Same reason she stopped using Shutterfly and other photo-specific options.
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Same except I have 5 TB unploaded to Crashplan. My data cap would have to go away for me to ever switch services (not that I want to, I'm happy with Crashplan).
 
Bigdady92 said:
That brings up further questions:

1. Was this off a local drive or a network share? I know there's a GUI that you can upload files to.

2. Is there a throttling mechanism that Crashplan and the rest have where if you are uploading TBs of files they will force your speeds to nothing?
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I've heard about Crashplan throttling.. but I haven't experienced it myself with over 2TB uploaded. It's been awhile since my last "major" upload, but about a month ago my wife realized she had about 30 GB of photos that hadn't copied over to our server and after adding them crashplan uploaded them all at pretty much my max upload speed.

Jordan12 said:
I signed up for the 3 month trial. I already uploaded a 15GB Video file and no issues. Re downloaded it fast too.

I like this service. I am going to upload as much data as I can in the 3 months I have the trial for and see how it is.
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Since you have tried it.. is there a client that you can configure on the server/desktop and just point it to the folders you want to back up and let it rip? I never found anything for the photo storage (hey, we already have Prime why not have another backup just in case) so I didn't know if they provided something for their "everything" plan...
 
Can someone recommend a cloud backup service that automatically syncs folders?
 
Megalith said:
Can someone recommend a cloud backup service that automatically syncs folders?
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Check out Cloudberry Labs. They have a product called Cloudberry Box that does this. It is not a service but works in conjunction with thing like Amazon S3 some other cloud storage. I use their backup product to backup to S3.
 
Encode data as lossless png, profit? ($12 vs $60 per year)
 
Spidey329 said:
How does Altdrive police their service? I have all my devices back up to a central server at my home. Would having one license allow that to be backed up? Backups of backups?
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It is a per machine license and the program will only let you back up files from local drives. It does see usb connected drives.

As long as the OS you are running on your backup server is supported by the app, you should be able to add whatever you want.
 
with 12mbps upload how long would it take to backup 18TB to the cloud?
 
pothb said:
I'm sure he can find 1tb worth of original porn. Can't be that hard.
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You guys are missing the point. The claim "unlimited" is absurd, just as it would be to try and store that much porn...
We may use, access, and retain Your Files in order to provide the Service to you and enforce the terms of the Agreement, and you give us all permissions we need to do so.
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You think they don't at least have sniffers in "Your Files" to detect this kind of behavior, and if there is ANY warning sign they will go in and man-handle your files then send the SWAT team out if they suspect any dangerous activity? Meanwhile congress is passing around the naked photos of your ex gf and making fake profiles to post them for shits and giggles because that's the only way that they can get hard anymore. Laugh at me all you want, once you see your face on the news along with those greasy monkeys with their post-jack-off-smirks claiming they want to protect the ladies... only then will you understand... only then.........
 
jordan12 said:
I signed up for the 3 month trial. I already uploaded a 15GB Video file and no issues. Re downloaded it fast too.

I like this service. I am going to upload as much data as I can in the 3 months I have the trial for and see how it is.
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SInce you jumped in, what are their file sharing mechanisms like, if they have any? I've been using dropbox pro for certain things, and like the sahre with apssword with set expiration thing. Don't like the price vs. storage vs. limits math nearly as much though.
 
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