majithia23 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Amazon today unveiled a new storage service called Amazon Cloud Drive that gives you 5 GB of free online storage space to store your documents, photos, music and other files securely in the cloud. All you need is a free Amazon.com account to upload your files which you can then access from anywhere using a web browser. Amazon Cloud Drive is purely an online file storage solution and the only client that you can use to upload or download files from your Cloud Drive account is your web browser. Thus, for example, if you plan to copy your entire My Documents folder from the computer to Amazon's cloud, you'll have to upload files manually from the browser, one by one. Or, to save time, you could zip the entire folder into a single file and upload it in one go as Cloud Drive supports files as large as 2 GB in size. (Dropbox has a file size limit of 300 MB). Amazon offers a handy desktop client that will scan your hard drive for music related files and will automatically put them to Cloud Drive - you then listen to your music from anywhere using the browser itself without having to download anything to that computer. Other than that, I think the Cloud Drive service is also good for manually backing up some of your really bulky files online - like those Outlook PSTs.Bonus Tip – Upgrade to 20 GB for less than $1 All Amazon Cloud Drive users get 5 GB of free online storage space or you can pay $20 to upgrade to the 20 GB plan. There's another option as well. Amazon will upgrade your storage to 20 GB if you buy any MP3 Album from them. Now there are quite a few music albums on Amazon.com that are available for less than $1 – buy any one and you'll be upgraded to 20 GB. The only downside is that while Cloud Drive is available to everyone worldwide, Amazon's music store is only for residents of the United States with a U.S. billing address.Amazon Cloud Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeetPirate Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Nice, I just uploaded some of my music. Too bad the cloud player thing only works for USA region but this is still good backup space for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted March 31, 2011 Author Share Posted March 31, 2011 yup seems good ...like the speeds , esp when compared to Skydrive what i use atm ... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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