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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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  • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2020 - 11:55

    New or a repost of an expired deal?

  • amuthan on 12/04/2020 - 12:07
    +1

    Thanks! I have set it up on my Mac.

  • dm01 on 12/04/2020 - 12:10
    +100

    5GB? What is this - online storage for ANTS?

    • bchliu on 12/04/2020 - 12:19
      +2

      Enough for 1000 hi-res photos. lol

    • AustriaBargain on 12/04/2020 - 12:26
      +11

      Microsoft give you 6x 1TB if you have Office 365 Home.

      • syme321 on 12/04/2020 - 12:39
        +2

        Yeah hard to beat, also find it less hassle the Google Drive esp when adding attachment in email

      • Laziofogna on 12/04/2020 - 12:47
        +1

        How much is Office 365 to buy?

        • twocsies on 12/04/2020 - 13:17
          +1

          It's a subscription model. Office 365 gives you 365 days of access for around $99 for the personal subscription.

          • mccarthyp64 on 12/04/2020 - 14:44

            @twocsies:

            365 days of access

            Little optimistic buddy, even in a leap year.

          • jace88 on 12/04/2020 - 14:49

            @twocsies: The 6 users thing is the Home package but it’s often on OzBargain for circa $80-$90 IIRC. I even have some codes I am holding onto from past deals when I realised you can’t add more than five years.

            • AustriaBargain on 12/04/2020 - 15:13
              +1

              @jace88: I paid $100 to Officeworks for my digital code, i was feeling lazy.

      • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 12:55
        +3

        Or get unlimited free storage with Google team drive, https://teamdrive.mfoxx.workers.dev/

        • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2020 - 13:28
          +2

          What is this sorcery?

          EDIT: ok making use of Edu accounts…

          • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 13:47
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: I use it with my personal account and it's fine.
            It's great for a backup solution, I have Duplicati backing up all my files to the drive.

        • kctt on 12/04/2020 - 14:11

          What happens if the team creating your link shut down? All of your backup is gone?

          • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 14:13

            @kctt: Highly unlikely that it'll shut down. Source: https://telegra.ph/A-complete-guide-of-shared-drive-Team-dri…

            • Tigerhacker on 12/04/2020 - 19:52

              @Mibo: Just because its not exposed in the console, doesen't mean it's not easy to delete, its trivial to do so using a CLI tool like GAM

              https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM

              Which any admin of a large Google domain is likely using (or a 3rd part cloud management solution)

              Or they can turn off team drives completely on their domain

              Considering some people have scripted auto creation of team drives for the public, they can just as easily script it to do teh reverse or just harvest data

              Edit: I just checked, you can now manage team drives across your domain in the GUI now.
              So even if it's not 'shared with you', so you don't even need any technical expertise to 'break into' team drives created in your Google domain now.

              Console example; Take control of any drive or file
              https://imgur.com/a/lSaJzzC

              • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 21:17

                @Tigerhacker: Do you have to take control of each team drive manually? Or can you do it in batch?
                I have my files encrypted by rclone so it should be fine.

                • Tigerhacker on 12/04/2020 - 21:38

                  @Mibo: As with everything in the GUI, its manual (to protect people from themselves), with a CLI tool like GAM, you can easily do it in bulk.

          • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 14:19
            +2

            @kctt: If you still don't feel safe just mirror it between different team drives. More links here: https://telegra.ph/Script-for-getting-free-team-drives-01-30

            • jamestownfx on 12/04/2020 - 16:42

              @Mibo: Can anyone in the group access your files though or am I misunderstanding

              • sav11 on 12/04/2020 - 17:25

                @jamestownfx: Would also like to know.

                • Tigerhacker on 12/04/2020 - 19:54
                  +2

                  @sav11: The Owner/Admins of that Google domain 100% has access to your data (that you're storing on tehir account!) & Google account identifier, if you're going to use this 100% encrypt all data.

                  You're literally storing data in someone elses' home that you don't know for free, treat it as such.

                  Edit: Here's the admin view
                  https://imgur.com/a/lSaJzzC

                  • Zachary on 13/04/2020 - 13:31

                    @Tigerhacker: Can encryption be easily decrypted by someone who has access to your data?

                    • Tigerhacker on 13/04/2020 - 15:31
                      +1

                      @Zachary: Depends on what software you're relying on for encryption (while the data will be encrypted by Google when they store it on their systems, you need to add your own layer to protect it from the account holder, who has full access).

                      If you use well known properly made off the shelf software implementing proper encryption like AES (not just the old fashioned, 'password protection' that may be bypassed), you're probably fine, e.g. via Bilocker, Rclone, 7zip.

                      But keep in mind flaws can be found in these software products in the future and you have no ability to delete the data once stored in someone elses' Google domain (you can 'delete' it from the gui, but its never really deleted)

                      Bascially use common sense, from what I'm seeing people are using these to store their home movies, worst case you lose that data and get your Google account terminated for TOS violations.

                      I would personally not store my personal data in a rando's dodgey shed, even encrypted (one big aspect is human error, you might accidently upload someting confidential unencrypted), especially when it's only $15/mo to legitimately buy this service from Google, if you're really trying to store TBs of personal data.

                    • scupper on 13/04/2020 - 18:27

                      @Zachary: Even if you use good encryption, with increasing performance with graphic cards and such, it may be just a matter of time before they can break it.

              • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 18:30

                @jamestownfx: Only the members you add to the team drive will have access.

                • jamestownfx on 12/04/2020 - 18:46

                  @Mibo: So confused lol

                • Tigerhacker on 12/04/2020 - 19:41
                  +4

                  @Mibo: Except if you're using a free 'public' service, in which case any admin on that Google Edu domain will have access to all your data (and will likely have retention rules in place so good luck deleting stuff).

                  If you're going to store important stuff in team drives, you should really just setup a proper Google subscription for $15/month so that you are in control.

                • postform on 19/04/2020 - 21:33

                  @Mibo: Added myself into the team drive. How do you navigate through the shared drives. Seems like there is a lot of collections there.

        • scyther on 12/04/2020 - 23:25

          This is great. Huge Thanks mate.

        • conant on 13/04/2020 - 22:14

          Hi Mibo I am getting confused. My application was just got approved and there is a shared drive on my google drive now. Now I am convinsed that the drive will be there, forever but, how safe is the data? Is there a quick way to sync data while encrypting? Thanks.

          • Mibo on 14/04/2020 - 10:14
            +1

            @conant: Unless the admins decide to mass delete all the team drive including those of actual students, it should be fine.
            "Normally forever. Because normally the only chance for a team drive to get deleted is when the school/organisation decides to unsubscribe from g-suit plan. Since g-suit education and non-profit is free, it is basically impossible for you to lost your data in team drives. (If your team drive is hosted on edu/non-profit accounts such as ccsf, swccd etc…)"
            I use rclone to encrypt and sync my data to the team drives.

            • conant on 19/06/2021 - 18:24

              @Mibo: Hi Mibo, I just found out my account has been removed from shared drive and I lost a few movies - that's it.

              • Mibo on 25/06/2021 - 16:17
                +1

                @conant: edu TDs are to be limited to 100tb per organization from July 2022. The organisations must be cleaning them out.

                • conant on 25/06/2021 - 22:32

                  @Mibo: Thanks. I was suprised through - they did not even send me any email saying anything…

    • strangeloops66 on 12/04/2020 - 14:50

      Amazonian ants.

  • dsl1108 on 12/04/2020 - 12:21
    +3

    thx, I have my s3 bucket already

    • bazingaa on 12/04/2020 - 12:45
      +1

      in the Glacier

      • senorclean on 13/04/2020 - 05:52

        Deep archive ;)

  • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2020 - 12:23
    +2

    I guess 5gb is more than 4.9gb

    • dm01 on 12/04/2020 - 12:34
      +11

      Where is MathNerd? I need this verified.

      • nerd1 on 12/04/2020 - 13:00
        +8

        i'm standing in while mathnerd's in self isolation and couldn't come on this occation.

        ahem..

        his math is correct

        • dm01 on 12/04/2020 - 13:14
          +5

          A non-niche nerd to the rescue - thank you for your service.

      • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2020 - 13:48
        +1

        Scientist > nerd

        • dm01 on 12/04/2020 - 13:56

          Yeah but they "guessed".

          • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2020 - 14:03
            +2

            @dm01: Its what we data scientists do

            Ran it through a neural network and it was likely to be correct.

  • jaimex2 on 12/04/2020 - 13:27
    +12

    Other free options include

    Google drive 15GB
    Mega 15GB
    Microsoft One drive 5GB
    Drop box 2GB

    • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 13:50

      When did onedrive reduce to 5gb? I still have the inital 15gb + 15gb camera roll bonus.

      • EnALup on 12/04/2020 - 13:55

        It reduced few months ago. I had to delete all mobile camera pics backup from there. Its only on Google drive now. If you store photos converted in high definition, google does not count in your quota, so more like unlimited photos storage unless down the line you want to print them in poster size.

        • Mibo on 12/04/2020 - 14:11
          +1

          I didn't even know that happened

          • jaimex2 on 12/04/2020 - 15:34
            +1

            @Mibo: Same. It appears I lost data because of it.

    • MarkWAau on 12/04/2020 - 14:11

      Thoughts on Mega? Data safe?

    • zzymurgy on 12/04/2020 - 14:57

      Some of us remember 1000GB free from Stack

  • philart on 12/04/2020 - 13:37

    Can you upload stuff, then download it to another device, delete it from Amazon to retain one's storage allowance?

    • expertreader on 12/04/2020 - 15:13

      Should be ok

    • slimdusty on 12/04/2020 - 16:32

      Is that necessary? Doesn't one retain 5GB of storage whether you upload stuff or not? Or is this for a limited time only?

  • vik27kum on 12/04/2020 - 14:24
    +1

    Thanks, OP. I have added this to my list of encrypted backups.

  • Viospeed on 12/04/2020 - 17:26

    How do you get the Amazon drive app. I'm not talking about the shitty Amazon photos app

    • chadnchady on 13/04/2020 - 17:25

      Anyone got an answer to this? I keep getting directed to the Amazon Photos app for download, can't seem to find the Amazon Drive app.

  • littlesoldier on 12/04/2020 - 18:02
    +2

    5GB is never enough these days
    I have been using google drive (now called google one subscription)
    And have never regret to pay for the 200GB plan

    Plus, get unlimited google photo storage (high res photos)

  • Psomaggi on 12/04/2020 - 18:55

    Wow - right up there with Apple in the storage generosity stakes!

    I think I’ll stick with my OneDrive…

  • turbodude on 12/04/2020 - 19:03
    +1

    Does OneDrive still have issues with syncing? Had many occasions where files just refuse to sync and many other people had the same issue at the time I researched it (was a couple of years ago now since I stopped using it)

  • chadnchady on 13/04/2020 - 17:26

    How to get the Amazon Drive app, only seem to see the Photo App.

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