Free 5GB storage with Amazon.
If you already have an Amazon account you use that to login to the service.
Amazon Cloud Drive is your hard drive in the cloud. Store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon’s secure servers. All you need is a web browser to upload, download, and access your files from any computer.
Sounds good, but I don't see the advantage over mediafire. I have over 7G video uploaded to my mediafire free account and it seems unlimited space as long as every file is less than 200MB.
Mediafire is slow. Amazon aws and its related services (ie dropbox) don't cap your download speed.
How do we know this is secure? if you put photos up (wang) you don't want those to be copied and posted on facebook for the world to see.
you can put files on dropbox in private folders, or you can put them in public folders so that everyone gets direct http access to them
Well considering Amazon will almost certainly host some of your private data now I'd say there's not much to be concerned about.
Sounds good, but at the moment I'm really enjoying the simplicity of my Dropbox :)
Me too. I love the desktop interface.
Dropbox is only 2gb free
more if you refer and link fb/twitter and various other accounts
I have 4 gigs in my DB
I have 19 gigs :)
If you max out your referrals and then change your emai to a .edu (TAFE or Uni) email account to double your storage — you will get close to 19GB's.
not working for me
This will be even more useful if it is not blocked by Websense filtering at work. Fingers crossed.
From the cloud website: "Songs purchased from Amazon MP3 and saved directly to your Amazon Cloud Drive never count toward your storage limit and are always stored free of charge."
Is this a "deal" per se? Its just a new service, and in any case its still not competitive with other cloud storage services. I.e. you need to do everything through the web interface. No PC/MAC/Linux/iOS/Android integration is big negative.
And if you consider this to be a deal perhaps, http://aws.amazon.com/free/, is better. Even if its just free for the first 12month.
Pretty sure this is an android thing (but love the openness of it for all to share)
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne…
Personally I like the power of SugarSync :)
I was with sugar sync, but switch over to Live Mesh (part of windows live essential) which also can remote desktop.
With Microsoft Skydrive you get 25GB free.
Yeah wondering too, what is the advantage of this over 25GB skydrive? Skydrive been running for years and so is lots of other sites, now amazon give out 5GB and everyone talk about it?
skydrive has a very clumsy interface and no desktop app(AFAIK). While I don't like Amazon either I find the web interface better than skydrive. Fell free to correct me if I am wrong anywhere :)
Has anyone read the T&C's??
Heres a few of my favourites:
4.3.Automatic Renewal. UNLESS YOU NOTIFY US BEFORE RENEWAL THAT YOU WANT TO CANCEL OR DO NOT WANT TO AUTO RENEW, YOUR SERVICE PLAN WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW AT THE END OF ITS TERM FOR A NEW SERVICE PLAN, AND YOU AUTHORIZE US (WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU) TO COLLECT THE THEN-APPLICABLE FEE AND ANY TAXES FOR THE RENEWAL PLAN, USING ANY CREDIT CARD WE HAVE ON RECORD FOR YOU. SERVICE PLAN FEES AND FEATURES WILL CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME.
Which alligns nicely with…
4.4.Promotional and Trial Offers. We may offer trial Service Plans or promotional Service Plans ("Promotional Plans") for access to the Service. Some Promotional Plans may automatically upgrade to a paid Service Plan at its regular price at the end of the promotional or trial period unless you choose not to upgrade by using the means we provide you to do so. If you sign up for a Promotional Plan THAT AUTOMATICALLY UPGRADES, UNLESS YOU chOose not to upgrade, we will charge your credit card the applicable Service fee at the end of the term of the Promotional Plan. Specific terms of Promotional Plans will be provided with the plans.
It gets better,
5.2.Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law.
5.3.Security. We do not guarantee that Your Files will not be subject to misappropriation, loss or damage and we will not be liable if they are. You're responsible for maintaining appropriate security, protection and backup of Your Files.
holy f*ing cow.
5.3.Security. We do not guarantee that Your Files will not be subject to misappropriation, loss or damage and we will not be liable if they are. You're responsible for maintaining appropriate security, protection and backup of Your Files.
The others are a bit iffy. But this is just WOW.
Simple, pay up and get a SLA in blood (or what ever is convenient eg. http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting/ with http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla/)
LOL at the t&c, if they are not responsible for the loss, then who is?? loving my files on my CHEAP 1 tb drive
Why are you all so surprised at these T&Cs ?! This is the Internet. If you place any files out on it you must assume that it is no longer private and that anything could happen to it.
Unless you take steps yourself to secure data, and not rely on on a third party to do it for you, you are going to be another statistic of fraud / identity theft, etc.
In my opinion, Amazon are being trustworthy by telling you that your data may not be safe with them. It's the ones that make you feel safe that you need to be more cautious about.
Welcome to the T&C's that almost f*cked over Wikileaks when the US senate enquiry subpoena'd Amazon for details on sites/dns hosted for Wikileaks.
People need to read T&C's.
For example…Facebook T&C over content:
"… you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others…"
Plus a million. Sugarsync is awesome!! And yes, I have a drop box account, maxed out.. combine with Sugarsync I have enough space that I don't need a usb stick anymore… YAY!
Will still check out this Amazon thingy though :P
Whoops.. edit… this was meant to be a reply to pepitovfr's comment.
Buy an MP3 album—get 20 GB of storage free for a year
Purchase an album from the Amazon MP3 Store and we'll give you 20 GB of storage free of charge for one year from the date of your purchase. That's enough space to store up to 4000 songs. You can keep your 20 GB storage plan after the year is up or do nothing and we'll drop you down to our free 5 GB plan. Don't worry—you will never be charged for storage space unless you choose to upgrade to a paid storage plan. Learn more about the 20 GB promotion
Only problem with the 20gb free is that it is only available to U.S residents.
"You can keep your 20 GB storage plan after the year is up or do nothing and we'll drop you down to our free 5 GB plan."
Means you to remember to tell them you want to keep the extra space otherwise they will take it back. Hopefully they will send a reminder of some sort when the time is almost up.
When do we get 1Gigabite NBN????
I use adrive and they give you 50GB free, with no file size restrictions.
website uses java and is very bland
No desktop support and uploading files is a pain in the arse
I only use it to backup my music collection at night, that too methodically
Note: The cool MP3 cloud player is US only as well.
As I understand it, I cannot access this on my Android phone because I am not in the US. That's a big restriction compared to competitors..
Awesome Thanks!