Amazon Drive pricingĪmazon Drive pricing is a little tricky to get your head around – with a Prime subscription (from $12.99 or £7.99 a month), you get an unlimited amount of photo storage space for free (or rather as part of the cost of Prime), as well as 5GB of room for your videos and other file types. You'll find plenty of cloud storage options out there with much better security measures, whether it's end-to-end encryption or password-protected links. There's no end-to-end encryption, no at-rest encryption, and a very open method of managing shared links (it isn’t possible to password protect the link or limit it to access from a particular account).įine for a few holiday snaps then, but you're not really going to want to put important work documents or sensitive files on here, just in case. (Image credit: Future) Amazon Drive securityĪmazon Drive offers two-factor authentication (if you choose to activate it on your Amazon account), but security isn't a strong point here. There's also the option to share files and folders, but like a lot of the Amazon Drive features, it's all a bit rudimentary. Searching through your files, as well as carrying out simple operations like moving and renaming, is all straightforward. Also you can't really view your files in the desktop app: it's more of an uploading tool.Ī lot of users may well be able to get by on the web interface alone – you can run one-off uploads from here, but there's no automatic folder uploading. You can only stream video files that are under 20 minutes in length directly from the web, for example, which immediately puts it behind most of its competitors.
While the interface scores highly for ease of use, it's a bit bare bones in terms of functionality. File transfers were speedy (considering our home internet connection), and you can just drag and drop files on to the apps to upload them, if you want. We like the way that you can pick any file or folder from your computer and choose to upload them, and the way you can carry out one-off backups as well as keeping specific folders monitored, and overall the desktop applications and web interface are polished enough. It also now includes the ability to sync, Dropbox-style, providing a means to automatically secure new files without any extra user effort.
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(Image credit: Future) Amazon Drive interfaceĪs we've said, there are a few confusing aspects to Amazon Drive, not least that the software you download to your computer is called Amazon Photos – that suggests that it just deals with your photo library, but in fact the tool will secure any folder or file irrespective of type.
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