Subj : Amazon Drive cloud storage for Prime users ends - here's what you
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Date : Tue Jan 02 2024 14:30:05

Amazon Drive cloud storage for Prime users ends - here's what you need to know

Date:
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:26:08 +0000

Description:
After almost 13 years, Amazon Drive is being replaced with a more 
consumer-focussed storage service for videos and photos. Weve got all the 
details, and what you should probably be doing with your data next.

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In a somewhat unwelcome late Christmas present, Amazon has slipped an 
end-of-life notice for its Amazon Drive cloud storage service. 

The platform is being supplanted by Amazon Photos , an almost identical cloud 
storage service, but one that offers less value to users, only allowing 
uploads of video and photo content, rather than just, er, files. 

 As threatened in 2022 , the switchover happened on New Years Eve 2023, and 
as How to Geek attests, this means that although the Amazon Drive interface 
has now gone to live on a farm, files uploaded before the closure remain 
accessible  and, crucially, downloadable. A guide to retrieving your Amazon 
Drive files 

It's not all bad news though - as users will be able to find their migrated 
files in the Folders section of the Amazon Drive app. 



Said section might not be well-organized: Drive also stored digital purchases 
and files sent remotely to Kindles youll probably find that Anne Rice novel 
your ex-wife bought you in 2012 that you had to pretend was high-falutin 
literature.



However, a Christmas miracle is yet upon us: Amazon will apparently let you 
keep these files forever. Thats a promise from an evil corporation, so, 
naturally, could all change at any point. Its no immaculate conception, more 
King Herod throwing his weight around, so wed recommend retrieving any files 
you think you might like to. Migrating to a new cloud storage provider 

As it stands, Amazon Photos is a strange beast: a photo storage service aimed 
more at consumers looking to preserve holiday snaps than enterprises looking 
to keep swathes of potentially sensitive data secure. If youre a business 
owner, wed strongly suggest migrating to another cloud backup offering.



There are that many to choose from, with so different specialties (Amazon may 
have long since abandoned unlimited cloud storage , but other providers are 
happy to oblige) that its impossible to recommend just one, or even a handful 
of providers. So, well make suggestions and you can make the decision. More 
from TechRadar Pro New Amazon Photos app ends the worst thing about photo 
cloud storage apps I was fed up with free cloud storage: here are 5 paid 
cloud storage providers I considered and the one I chose Weve also listed the 
best cloud storage management services right now



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazon-drive-cloud-storage-for-prime-users-ends-
heres-what-you-need-to-know


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