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Amazon Drive is closing on January 31, 2023

by rullopat on 7/29/22, 1:37 PM with 14 comments

• by garblegarble on 7/29/22, 2:58 PM

  I guess they couldn't afford the S3 costs?! :-)

  Jokes aside, it makes sense to shut down, I can't imagine many Prime subscribers knew they had it, and it's probably a huge headache for them to worry about it being used for copyright infringement, etc... but it is odd timing to announce this now with the recent increase in Amazon Prime's membership fee.

  Pivoting it to Photo/Video library archival is probably more useful to consumers (and cynically probably more useful data for Amazon...)

• by haunter on 7/29/22, 3:07 PM

  Looked at this recently because I'm on the verge of upgrading my Dropbox to a bigger tier but even though files were syncing they changed the dates. Maybe it was a bug but that instantly was big no for me. Honestly I just wish Dropbox has a "consumer" tier, I don't need 2TB and don't want to pay 12€ for that. Something for 3-5€ would be much better

• by clintonb on 7/29/22, 3:03 PM

  It took me a minute to recall what Amazon Drive is/was. It debuted well after I was using Dropbox, Google Drive, and (to some extent) iCloud file storage. I didn’t have a need for Amazon Drive.

  Amazon Photos, however, with unlimited storage has been great for archiving family photos.

• by YPPH on 7/29/22, 1:41 PM

  I just received the email. Worth noting that you will still be able to view and download your files until December 31, 2023.

• by advisedwang on 7/29/22, 6:21 PM

  Time to set up killedbyamazon.com?

• by CobaltFire on 7/29/22, 7:21 PM

  I totally forgot that I even had stuff on here into the email.

  Nice reminder of what I was doing back then looking at those project documents!

• by sidcool on 7/29/22, 5:41 PM

  Google Drive is a seriously good software. I don't use the desktop sync service but the web service is pretty smooth and fast...