Storage Wars?? :: Amazon Introduces Cloud Drive ::

Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
5GB for free, 50GB will set you back $25/year. Free, unlimited storage, if you have Prime.

Look! Up on the screen! It's a bird... It's a plane... No! It's Amazon Cloud Drive!!!





/have Prime, not sure I'll use this...
//choice is a good thing...
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PapaST

Senior Member
I'm a Prime Member and wasn't aware of this. I'm uploading some photos now. It already rejected one video because it was over 2GB.

From what I can tell, Prime Members get unlimited photos (and videos I guess). But are still limited to 5GB of regular files unless you up your plan.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
I've had prime for a long time and I just got notified about this when I logged on to Amazon earlier today. I'm guessing it's new...

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PapaST

Senior Member
Here are some of the parameters for those that are interested in the unlimited "photo" storage (don't see support for .NEF files, that stinks):

Requirements for Uploading Photos & Videos


  • The photo or video is smaller than 2 GB
  • The video is less than 20 minutes long
  • You have sufficient storage space available on your Cloud Drive and on your computer
  • File and folder names contain fewer than 255 characters

Supported File Types

For photos:

  • .bmp
  • .gif
  • .jpeg
  • .jpg
  • .png
  • .raw
  • .tif
  • .tiff
For videos:

  • .mp4 (including mov, 3gp, m4v)
  • .avi (including divx)
  • .mts (mpeg transport stream)
  • .mpg (mpeg program stream)
  • .asf/.wmv
  • .flv
  • .ogg
Note:

  • Supported video codecs include: h.264, mjpeg, mpeg4, mpeg2, mpeg1, h.263, Sorenson. Supported audio codecs include: aac, mpeg1/2, amr, wma, qcelp, pcm.
  • Photos or video file types that do not meet the above requirements can be found in Cloud Drive Files, but not viewed in Cloud Drive Photos & Videos. Unsupported photo file types are not covered under the Prime unlimited storage benefit and will count against your Cloud Drive storage limit.

Incompatible Characters

For Windows, file names ending in the following (in upper or lower case) must be renamed to enable updating:

  • CON
  • PRN
  • UX
  • NUL
  • COM[1-9]
  • LPT[1-9]
  • Any special characters (<>:"/\|?*\) or Unicode \x00 - \x1F
  • File names ending with a space or a period
  • $$
 
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