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Amazon Cloud Drive Now Includes Unlimited Cloud Storage Plans
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The unlimited photo storage is already included with Prime. Not so the other stuff.
Amazon Cloud Drive Conditions of Use must be updated
Folks,
If you take the time to read the documents associated with Amazon's service they say the the Cloud Drive is governed by the Amazon Conditions of Use document which has not been updated since Dec of 2012. This is a problem because under the Copyright section Amazon states,
"All content included in or made available through any Amazon Service, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, and data compilations is the property of Amazon..."
A simple reading of this says if you use the service you are essentially giving your images to Amazon. Now, I think this is actually an oversight on their part and I called Amazon customer service when they added this benefit to my Prime membership, but they never got back to me after that initial conversation and saying they would escalate it to their legal team.
I would be very cautious about using this until this is cleared up.
WinterFox
Folks,
If you take the time to read the documents associated with Amazon's service they say the the Cloud Drive is governed by the Amazon Conditions of Use document which has not been updated since Dec of 2012. This is a problem because under the Copyright section Amazon states,
"All content included in or made available through any Amazon Service, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, and data compilations is the property of Amazon..."
A simple reading of this says if you use the service you are essentially giving your images to Amazon. Now, I think this is actually an oversight on their part and I called Amazon customer service when they added this benefit to my Prime membership, but they never got back to me after that initial conversation and saying they would escalate it to their legal team.
I would be very cautious about using this until this is cleared up.
WinterFox
How about two delete options? Button 1: Delete from Device, Button 2: Delete Everywhere. Seems simple enough.
That reminds me. I need to email Tim Cook.
I love iTunes Match. My problem-I have a over 1500 CD's and over 500 vinyl albums. 25,000 song is enough for certain people-I would be willing to pay for the increased music matching.
Thanks for the input. I can see how the first time backing up would take forever, but then the incremental backups don't take nearly as long. Say it's every week, you're backing up maybe 1GB, most likely a lot less.
Well if you deal in info NSA is interested in, you probably shouldn't be considering unencrypted cloud storage from any vendor.
THIS SERVICE IS NOT UNLIMITED.
Lifted from the top post on Hacker News, from Amazon's own terms:
"We may terminate the Agreement or restrict, suspend or terminate your use of the Service at our discretion without notice at any time, including if we determine that your use violates the Agreement, is improper, substantially exceeds or differs from normal use by other users, or otherwise involves fraud or misuse of the Service or harms our interests or those of another user of the Service." (Emphasis mine.)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...1376540&ref_=cd_tou_fp&?ref_=cd_unlimited_tou
Lifted from the top post on Hacker News, from Amazon's own terms:
"We may terminate the Agreement or restrict, suspend or terminate your use of the Service at our discretion without notice at any time, including if we determine that your use violates the Agreement, is improper, substantially exceeds or differs from normal use by other users, or otherwise involves fraud or misuse of the Service or harms our interests or those of another user of the Service." (Emphasis mine.)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...1376540&ref_=cd_tou_fp&?ref_=cd_unlimited_tou
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This right here. It's mind-boggling to me that you can't do this simple thing. It's less "cloud-based storage" as much as it's "cloud-based mirror".
starting to wonder exactly what is the cost price per GB or even TB for these giant companies.
i assume they will offer you some chart for you to compare yourself with other users then?
few TB is probably not that uncommon these days.
i assume they will offer you some chart for you to compare yourself with other users then?
few TB is probably not that uncommon these days.
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Not sure who your ISP is, but Comcast has small text that says that when they say "Unlimited", they actually mean "500 GB / month". Which is about 20x as much as I need, and I consider myself a rather heavy user. What are you doing - it may be against your ISP's TOS. I actually violate Comcast's TOS by hosting a few small websites off of my home internet connection.
Last time I did a date center project we were running petabyte costs of ~$120,000 or so (servers only).
They actually turned a profit last quarter. A small one and it only took them 20 some years...
Huntsville, Alabama. Apparently they implemented the program a few years ago as a test for other areas? I don't know. Either way it's 300gb cap, and $10 per 50gb after that.
sorry if the question is stupid but does that take into account the sort of bandwith amazon, dropbox, google etc storage solutions deal with?
But both are theoretically "Unlimited". And like I said, it's all the same 1s and 0s.
I have two 1TB Flickr accounts, which handles photos and videos, and are absolutely free. If I need a third I'll sign up another one, though hopefully Flickr will be unlimited by the time I fill them both up.
My only gripe is Flickr doesn't accept RAW files, so many of my online backups don't match my hard drive backups.
Well done to Amazon for going unlimited. Hopefully Apple will come round but they'll probably drag their heels, come up with some proprietary system that won't work and ditch after five years, etc. iCloud is just a pointless service to me. I don't personally know anyone who uses it.
My only gripe is Flickr doesn't accept RAW files, so many of my online backups don't match my hard drive backups.
Well done to Amazon for going unlimited. Hopefully Apple will come round but they'll probably drag their heels, come up with some proprietary system that won't work and ditch after five years, etc. iCloud is just a pointless service to me. I don't personally know anyone who uses it.
As long as these cloud storage options limit file sizes to 2GB they won't work for me. I have plenty of video that eclipses that limitation.
I got excited until I found out it's one of those things where you have to install a Dropbox-like desktop application. I want it to be accessible by FTP or something.