Amazon just upped the Cloud Photo storage ante with free unlimited Cloud storage for Photos for its Prime customers. The Amazon Photo service, which has apps for iOS or Android and is native to Amazon’s Fire products including its recently announced Fire stick, will no longer be capped for Prime customers.
Introducing Prime Photos. Your cherished memories are safe in Amazon Cloud Drive and accessible anywhere you are. It’s like having a virtual album of every one of your photos that you can access at any time, no matter which device you use.
According to TechCrunch, a Mac app is in the works but for now the web uploader works as well.
Prime is Amazon’s all-in-one premium service which allows free streaming music, 500,000 free eBooks, free Netflix-like TV service, free 2 day shipping on goods and services bought at Amazon. It is $99/year but grabbing a 30-day free trial 1 month before the holiday shopping season starts isn’t a bad idea. Folks who don’t want to fork out the $99 can get a 5 GB of free storage on Amazon Cloud Drive which is the equivalent to up to 2,000 photos.
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No love for Prime customers in Canada though. Typical.
No Love for Prime UK customers either
How does paying $99 per year make something “FREE?” 9to5 and the rest of the world have very different definitions of the word “FREE.”
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Bruno – It’s free for Prime members…
No, it’s not free for anyone. You pay $99 and this is a feature of your subscription. It’s not free by any definition. Seriously, does no one own a dictionary?
Check Engadget’s more accurate and meaningful headline:
“Amazon giving Prime Members unlimited cloud photo storage”
Nothing about free there – this is the truth. 9to5’s headline is hyperbolic BS.
It is free “To Prime Members”. Members paid $99/year before the unlimited photo cloud drive was offered. They pay the same $99/year after it’s offered. If the subscription fee went up after, then you are correct.
IMO – IF you shop the internet, it’s one of the best deals out there! FREE – No / Worthwhile – Yes.
We’ve been Prime members for about 5 years and have gotten ALL of our orders shipped via a 2 day for no additional charge – and that’s including delivery on Sundays via USPS. Free – no.
Streaming movies and music; being able to “borrow” books for free on our Kindle devices – and 2 day shipping. Best deal in the on-line shopping world!
Spot on!
Same here… Prime video does not have the widest selection but you can find something interesting to watch. The 2 day free shipping has really spoiled me… and then if you use the amazon credit card or another one like Chase Freedom, you not only get extra points for your purchases but you can use your points on purchases.
It’s the most integrated service of this kind by far at the moment in my opinion.
And this free deal will expire and they will raise the price within 3 months. Every online storage provider that has offered free unlimited storage has screwed there customers after a few months so make sure you have backups somewhere else. And I agree with other posters $99 per year isn’t free, its $99 a year. But like I said it won’t be for very long. They will end up price tiering the storage of your photos so beware.
I’m also suspicious of “for the holidays” — and can’t seem to find anything on Amazon’s site regarding the stickiness of this “free” service.
On the positive side: it seems to work for non-primary Prime members (unlike video streaming, which doesn’t).
Does this include raw images? Or jpg only?
I just tried it with .dng file and it worked, but if I download the file I just uploaded, it’s appended with .tiff — i.e., image_name.dng.tiff. The file size is exactly the same as the original .dng file, so there’s no compression happening. The “.dng.tiff” file opens in Camera Raw just as the original .dng does. Maybe somebody can explain this.
Here’s an important question: Just how large are the thumbnail image files that are automatically downloaded to your iOS device when you install the Cloud Drive app? The full size image or video has to be manually selected to be downloaded to the iOS device (assuming it came from a different device or computer), but with 160g of images that I’ll be uploading from my Mac, I’m concerned about storage space issues. I know that I don’t have to use the iOS app, and have turned off the auto-upload feature, but am still concerned about space on the iOS devices. And yes, I’m a professional Mac tech and my images are backed up locally, so I’m not relying on Cloud Drive as the sole location for *any* files.