There are many people with vested interests in such companies that will tell you that its the best but that’s just a lie or you’re a victim of marketing campaigns shoving it down your throat just like the way mobile phone makers are telling you microSD cards are bad for your phone whilst they happily charge you exorbitant prices for larger capacity phones and then as a fallback they will partner with some cloud storage service or have their own (samsung tried it) that you subscribe to also. You never know when they are going to pull the plug or just up and vanish.Ĭloud storage just like streaming services are purely designed to make money and hold you over a barrel. These kinds of cloud storage are just about the worst thing to depend on much to the same as streaming services. We will continue to provide customers the ability to safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with Amazon Photos.

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. Over the last 11 years, Amazon Drive has served as a secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files.

Amazon Drive is shutting down in 2023Īmazon notes in the announcement that it is shutting down Amazon Drive, its file storage service, on Decemto focus on Amazon Photos. Amazon shut down the plan two years later. A year later, Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited was launched, which gave customers unlimited file storage for $59.99 per year.

Then, in 2014, Amazon introduced unlimited photo storage for Cloud Drive. We warned potential customers about the implications of using Amazon Drive back in 2011, but did provide instructions on saving music to Amazon Cloud Drive and local PCs as well.Īmazon launched a desktop app for Cloud Drive in 2012, which worked on Macs and PCs only.

Amazon drive desktop app