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It's not a huge amount of storage but it may come in handy.

Amazon Photos can be found in the main menu under "Amazon Fire TV".

All Amazon customers get 5 GB of free storage. The storage can be used to store photos, video or files, using Amazon Photos or Amazon Drive.

Various annual storage plans are available for all customers. You can see all storage plans and prices by going to the Manage Storage page.

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    • iRMonkey on 12/10/2019 - 09:56
      +37

      Just another thing added to the Prime membership without any additional cost, why complain?

      • cloudy on 12/10/2019 - 10:10
        +5

        Nothing to do with prime it seems.

      • boxall on 12/10/2019 - 11:48

        It is not just Prime users.

        • IVI on 14/10/2019 - 15:43

          That's what he was suggesting.

          How to use this 5 GB from a Windows PX…?

      • jace88 on 10/11/2019 - 21:33

        I thought in the US, Prime gets unlimited photo uploads. Don't think we have an equivalent offer here.

    • expatOz on 12/10/2019 - 09:56
      +60

      Because not everyone has an Apple device.

      • jv on 30/10/2019 - 23:33
        -1

        Why not?

        • CriticalImpact on 06/11/2019 - 17:30
          +1

          Asking why someone on OzBargain doesn't buy apple products seems like an up hill battle to me

    • chrism238 on 12/10/2019 - 09:56
      +7

      Different people will have different reasons for believing that different companies offering free services are evil.

      • xfelix on 12/10/2019 - 10:00
        +3

        I agree. Google offers unlimited photo (<16M pix) storage. Who knows how they deal with your photos.

        • Daabido on 12/10/2019 - 21:17
          +7

          They pick out the juiciest ones and the execs retire to their colonial era homes with large fireplaces, high back red leather chairs and baby polar bear rugs, slip into their smoking jackets and enjoy. Now you know.

        • IVI on 14/10/2019 - 15:51

          Is there any way to encrypt photos, so Google can't get any Valie from them?
          Of course, rhey'd need to be, eg .JPG files, & checkout as JPEGs externally

          They'd also need to be useful (only) to their owner, eg, via an app.
          Maybe relative & friends could also access the pix, while signed-in.

          Does any1 out there see a Business Idea here? Eg:

          1. Build & sell the app (free to relies & friends)

          2. If Google can't see any of the fotos,
            they'd make u an offer u couldn't refuse
            (for a backdoor OR the whole company

          3. Profit

    • Jamesx on 12/10/2019 - 10:19
      +6

      why not have both? I don't have iDevices.

    • HandsomeMonkey on 12/10/2019 - 10:19
      +3

      If you don't use an iPoo can you used iCloud?

      • Okayy on 12/10/2019 - 11:10
        +2

        iPoo? Having Diarrhoea ya?

    • nikoris on 12/10/2019 - 10:26
      +5

      Because Amazon is cross platform. Easy.

    • Sage on 12/10/2019 - 11:00
      +5

      Apple?
      Have you heard about what they've done recently with China??
      There are a lot of things wrong with Apple and iCloud.

    • mickeyjuiceman on 12/10/2019 - 11:44
      +5

      Because Apple has an appalling track record with online services like this. Also, a lot of people don't own an Apple device.

    • ruprectaus on 19/10/2019 - 16:29
      +3

      iCloud is not OS agnostic, it's probably the worst choice you could make.

    • AustriaBargain on 10/11/2019 - 19:30

      True. OneDrive is also better, but if you have certain amazon services then maybe it will come in handy. I wouldn't know, I don't understand why anyone would buy into Amazon hardware ecosystem other than kindle.

  • boxall on 12/10/2019 - 10:01
    +20

    Nothing to do with Prime. Would love to see unlimited for Prime customers.

    • Agret on 12/10/2019 - 10:08
      +23

      US Amazon Prime gets unlimited photo storage, annoying that Australia doesn't

      • chutibuti on 12/10/2019 - 10:34

        yes we are the idiots

        • nikoris on 12/10/2019 - 16:23

          Well, it's cheaper so you're not an idiot actually just because you don't get EVERYTHING your way

      • CacheHunter on 12/10/2019 - 11:02
        +14

        But less annoying that our Prime is cheaper

      • fantombloo on 12/10/2019 - 21:06
        +7

        Australians don't take that many photos.

        -Joe Hockey

        • skittlebrau on 13/10/2019 - 14:51
          +1

          What people need to do is find a good cloud provider that provides good space.

          • Joe Hockey
        • Agret on 13/10/2019 - 23:01
          +3

          Maybe if we didn't waste so much of our cloud storage with photos of Avacado on toast then we'd have some space left to upload other things

      • noramando on 26/10/2019 - 18:18

        This is what baby Trump calls "America First". The whole world pay for the Americans for free usage. No wonder the Americans are so cocky. Ozzies are BFF but just cough up.

        • misu p on 01/11/2019 - 21:01
          +1

          No, I am paying not to have to live in the US. When Americans are cocky I just ask them why they have to sign to get 2 donuts on their CC.

    • Ceri on 12/10/2019 - 11:08
      +3

      Yeah the deals are pretty lame as of late too. Amazon day was disappointing. And ebay plus has better deals lately.

      Will not be renewing my amazon prime..

      • brotherfranciz on 12/10/2019 - 23:31
        +3

        There are some great tv shows. That alone makes me pick Prime over Plus.

      • Laziofogna on 13/10/2019 - 00:22

        Does that mean you don't use Prime tv and Prime music?

        • Ceri on 13/10/2019 - 20:23

          Have youtube premium and netflix family plan so nope.
          Did give prime tv a shot, but selection is still fairly limited compared to netflix.
          The Boys is pretty cool but it's only 8 episodes. Can easily watch it with 1 month prime.

          Picked 1 year membership because of FOMO but it's really not worth it. 1 month every now and then is prolly better value

      • Bigboomboom on 20/10/2019 - 12:25

        There's also Twitch Prime and free Twitch games every month. There's some free games that I was going to buy on Steam, so that saved me some $.

    • Grandpipe on 12/10/2019 - 11:25
      +3

      So wish i could store my photos on Amazon photos and would happily pay more for prime. Unlimited RAW file storage would be great.

      • fastnbulbous on 12/10/2019 - 21:31

        Absolutely. Even if prime cost a little more, unlimited raw would be very nice

  • jaimex2 on 12/10/2019 - 10:30
    +18

    Mega.nz gives you 50Gb free if anyone is looking for something that is actually usable.

    • bajirao on 12/10/2019 - 11:18

      There is a catch-
      *Subject to your participation in our achievements program - whatever that is

    • mayo on 12/10/2019 - 11:18
      +2

      15GB then clauses apply.

      https://chefkochblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/mega-nz-kills-…

      • jaimex2 on 12/10/2019 - 14:49
        +1

        Interesting…

        I made an account last week and dumped 32 GB in there in one go. Didn't get any messages, let's see what happens.

      • Mibo on 12/10/2019 - 16:59
        +1

        They used to give out 50gb without the clauses. They only change to this last year or the year before. I still have two accounts with 50gb.

    • Baysew on 12/10/2019 - 11:57
      +2

      50GB for 30 days only, then reverts to 15GB.

      • jaimex2 on 12/10/2019 - 14:50

        What if you filled it up first day?

        • Baysew on 12/10/2019 - 16:05

          If you don't reduce it, after the period expires, they will block access to all files until you go on to a paid plan.

          • jaimex2 on 12/10/2019 - 22:51

            @Baysew: Cool, i threw a backup in there so if its ever needed then sure - I'll pay.

    • T-man on 12/10/2019 - 13:53

      Megaupload used to offer the similar storage and now it disappeared. I lost all the files although I didn’t uploaded any porn or illegal files.

      • nikoris on 12/10/2019 - 14:27
        +4

        And that's why I pay google.
        It's cheap anyway and 100% reliable.

        It's the best option out there for me by far.

        • T-man on 12/10/2019 - 14:36

          Is that google drive?

          • cerealJay on 12/10/2019 - 15:30
            +3

            @T-man: They call it "Google One" now. Microsoft must be pissed.

            Google One is the paid subscription service that gives you 100 GB of Google Drive space for $25 per year. Or 2 TB for $125 per year.

            One thing not widely known is that Google lets you store unlimited photos and videos if you choose to store them in "high quality". Photos can be max 16 MP which is still very good quality. And videos can be 1080p. When stored at this quality, it doesn't count towards your storage quota. Only when you want to upload original quality photos and videos do they use up your available Drive space.

            • nikoris on 12/10/2019 - 16:13

              @cerealJay: They also give you 200GB for $44 per year, thats what im using.
              I will easily jump to 2TB for 125$ yearly when 200Gb becomes full, that's way too cheap and will probably suffice for life

            • sav11 on 12/10/2019 - 18:12

              @cerealJay: Does the unlimited photos/videos apply to customers on the free plan?

              • cerealJay on 12/10/2019 - 19:31

                @sav11:

                Does the unlimited photos/videos apply to customers on the free plan?

                My understanding is that it does still apply on the free plan. Photos must be backed up using Google Photos or one of their other products like Backup, with the quality set to high instead of original.

                • sav11 on 12/10/2019 - 23:17

                  @cerealJay: Thanks. Yeah looking at the app settings seems it does apply with high quality as u said, good deal. Need to replace Dropbox camera upload since they introduced the ridiculous 3 device limit.

                  I'll probably upgrade to paid Google One (or MS OneDrive) when my free Box 50Gb fills up.

            • T-man on 12/10/2019 - 18:19
              +1

              @cerealJay: Oh Thanks for the info. I may move my files and photos from OneDrive to Google One because my Hotmail account is now full at 50gb but I cannot use OneDrive storage for the email. Google use the storage limit for both email account and google drive. Also, we can use iTunes to pay for the subscription at 20% discount, that is great.

            • Haulien on 13/10/2019 - 22:53
              +1

              @cerealJay: Or unlimited anything for $201.60/year with G-Suite Business. The 5 user limit doesn't exist in practice. That includes original quality photos and videos, raw files, anything else you can dream of.

              • eug on 23/10/2019 - 01:28

                @Haulien:

                Or unlimited anything for $201.60/year with G-Suite Business

                Unlimited* anything… Linus Tech Tips tried to use them to back up their petabyte server and got throttled at around 150TB. So it's still unlimited, but it might take a looooong time to get there, if ever.

                150TB would be as good as unlimited for us mortals though. :)

    • wangasm on 12/10/2019 - 15:34
      +1

      Another catch not advertised for mega is there's a variable bandwidth limit of ~1GB every 6 hours. Which means you won't be able to upload files larger than 1GB (but cannot confirm myself). https://www.cloudstorageoptions.com/mega/

  • [Deactivated] on 12/10/2019 - 10:54
    +5

    5GB is basically useless and Amazon syncing is rubbish. OneDrive or Dropbox is much better for this on all devices.

    • jenna12 on 12/10/2019 - 11:32
      +7

      No harm in keeping your encrypted data in multiple places. Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, Amazon. Now you're covered no matter which company is chosen to be spared by our alien overlords.

      • sav11 on 12/10/2019 - 23:22

        Any tips on the best way to sync them all?

  • BlitzR on 12/10/2019 - 12:44

    Thanks OP

  • samfisher5986 on 12/10/2019 - 14:32
    +7

    Amazon has twice offered online storage then changed their mind overnight and completely changed the offering, screwing over everyone.

    So no thanks.

    • Haulien on 13/10/2019 - 22:51
      +1

      Not quite. They've always offered online storage, it was more that they once offered unlimited for real cheap (an extra AU$70 a year IIRC) but then changed their mind after the service was abused.

      • samfisher5986 on 14/10/2019 - 00:06

        Yes, but they also just completely cut off external software from accessing it not too long ago which has nothing to do with that.

  • newbiesh on 12/10/2019 - 15:12
    +1

    Dropbox? Been using since uni days no issue what soever

    • neonlight on 12/10/2019 - 17:34
      +5

      Dropbox is no good anymore you cannot have more than 3 devices sync'ed including mobile

  • CandyMan on 12/10/2019 - 17:22
    -8

    Is this applied automatically
    I don’t want their storage

  • neonlight on 12/10/2019 - 17:33

    No extras for prime membership? Ah wells

  • Mr777 on 12/10/2019 - 17:46

    How is it different from Google drive

    • Ulysses31 on 12/10/2019 - 18:02
      +2

      It's Amazon (?)

      • Mr777 on 12/10/2019 - 18:23

        <Claps> cat

        When Google Drive gives 15GB for free. What is all the fuss about Amazon? Do they have any advantage over Google?

        • jwh on 12/10/2019 - 20:00
          +2

          I guess one benefit is not having all of your eggs in one basket with the services of one company. Subjective.

          I’ve used it to upload some photos that’ll be displayed on my Echo Show as a photo album. So that’s a benefit for me.

          • Ulysses31 on 13/10/2019 - 12:08

            @jwh: Yup. Pretty straight forward.

            Seems some people seem to like monopolies.

        • Agret on 13/10/2019 - 14:23
          +1

          Google also gives you totally free unlimited photo backup at "high quality" which seems pretty much identical to the original quality file I have on my phone. Probably only a difference if you are shooting with a DSLR.

  • mangoice on 12/10/2019 - 18:47

    Microsoft Office 365 1TB with yearly subscription

    • Frozensage on 12/10/2019 - 19:22

      Microsoft onedrive 1 year 1tb? with bing lee 20% and you get office for free is the winner.

      • UncommonName on 13/10/2019 - 08:21

        Can you please share the deal? Was it posted here?

    • jwh on 12/10/2019 - 20:06
      +2

      Yeah I think that’s a great option, plus you can share it with 5 family members for a total of 6TB.

      • Agret on 13/10/2019 - 14:24

        Or friends who setup a scheduled bank transfer ;) works great for spotify premium & Netflix too

  • GregMonarch on 12/10/2019 - 19:52

    Gerry Harvey is on the phone to Scott Morrison right now, trying to work out how to make Australians pay to use this because someone joked he can make a few more cents per day by selling an extra couple of HDDs.

    • Diji1 on 02/11/2019 - 13:53
      -2

      The fools that voted Laberal are continuing to blame Gerry Harvey when they voted for politicians that are controlled by Gerry Harvey through lobbying.

      The fools have only themselves to blame but they continue fruitlessly blaming Gerry Harvey meaning nothing will change and they will continue losing money to GST, superannuation and privatisation.

      • GregMonarch on 02/11/2019 - 21:57
        -1

        I can't see it changing. Too many sheep baa'ing away that there's only one of two choices - and the rest who could make a difference, our votes are scattered among multiple parties with idiotic pet agendas (shooters, pot, etc.).

        Maybe we should have let John Howard make himself Australia's first PM. Maybe then we would have eventually wound up with our own Trump - for a few years anyway.

  • Iwantthatbargain on 12/10/2019 - 21:59
    +1

    If you want to upgrade to 100 GB storage, it is at USD 11.99 per year, which is cheaper than Google drive price of AUD 24.99

    • barozgain on 12/10/2019 - 22:19
      -1

      ohh wow thanks Apple… it's way cheaper

      • Agret on 13/10/2019 - 14:28
        +1

        Is it? Here's iCloud pricing

        Australia (AUD)
        50GB: $17.88/yr
        200GB: $53.88/yr
        2TB: $179.88/yr

        That makes it $26.94 AUD a year per 100gb on the 200gb plan but they don't actually offer a 100gb plan. Doesn't sound cheaper than either to me.

        • barozgain on 14/10/2019 - 20:22

          ohhh my bad I read it as USD11.99 per month and was like gee that's expensive

          You're right

          • Arcticviper on 17/10/2019 - 16:10

            @barozgain: Paying $11.99 USD a month can get a single account on their gsuite plan which includes 1tb, if you make a team drive from there it's technically unlimited.

            • Agret on 19/10/2019 - 11:00

              @Arcticviper:

              A shared drive can contain a maximum of 400,000 files and folders.

              Seems bad for a directory tree style backup but if you have a system image backup it could be okay since it says you can upload max 5TB in a single file. Interesting way to do a system level backup.

              • Arcticviper on 19/10/2019 - 11:09

                @Agret: They do also have a 750gb upload daily limit so it's more like a 22.5tb monthly cap?

  • CC123 on 12/10/2019 - 23:51

    Will give this a try and compare it against my many other cloud services.
    Thanks OP!

  • Viospeed on 14/10/2019 - 17:25

    I currently use this and Photos app is rubbish. You can even browse the contents of the drive other than view the folders. I need to log into the web gui to do that. It's made to backup and thats about it.

    It's not like dropbox where you can view it in a windows explorer folder.

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