Amazon Photo Storage

[lupi]

Anyone use Amazon for their photo cloud storage? I like to keep actual photos in my ad card but also want the automatic backup for secondary safety. Hit the free limit pretty easy but get unlimited via prime. Curious from any other users how well the Amazon one works.

 

[bfun_x1]

I use Amazon Glacier for my long term storage. I've yet to do a data pull from it but $0.004 per GB / month is hard to beat. I think I still pay less than $1 a year. It's a great option if you want a safe way to store photos for a few decades.

 

[mundane]

Didn't care for the interface, but there are clients (Cloud Berry?) that allow you to treat it like a regular network store.

Having said that, I'm slowly shifting my family (and our massive photo backlog) over to Google Photo. Next step is for me to find some rsync-like service to pull from Google to local backup, and then (as bfun_x1 says above), push that content into long term storage.

My biggest challenge has been sifting through old, unordered photos, and attempting to create a definitive directory tree of everything, without duplicates. I still have pockets of photo archives scattered about machines and servers, and I have trouble convincing myself they're already encompassed within the central store.

 

[Yakk]

I'm having the same question recently.

I also have a lot of sorting to do... Slowly, slowly. I managed to regroup everything onto my NAS, still showing duplicates before the online backup. My biggest issue is what to do with all this new 4K video I'm accumulating. At 20GB+ per hour, it goes fast!

 

[lupi]

Didn't care for the interface, but there are clients (Cloud Berry?) that allow you to treat it like a regular network store.

Having said that, I'm slowly shifting my family (and our massive photo backlog) over to Google Photo. Next step is for me to find some rsync-like service to pull from Google to local backup, and then (as bfun_x1 says above), push that content into long term storage.

My biggest challenge has been sifting through old, unordered photos, and attempting to create a definitive directory tree of everything, without duplicates. I still have pockets of photo archives scattered about machines and servers, and I have trouble convincing myself they're already encompassed within the central store.

Excluding what I haven't downloaded from the phones recently, I've already got a central folder storage on my pc of all the photos. This i back up periodically with external hard drives.

As the phones as much more likely to have an issue, mainly looking for automatic cloud storage for them in the event a mishap occurs.

 

[Red Storm]

I believe Amazon has a file size limit for photos, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

I personally use Google Photos. It really is the best IMHO.

 

[lupi]

I believe Amazon has a file size limit for photos, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

I personally use Google Photos. It really is the best IMHO.

if you have prime, unlimited for photos, 5gb for video.

 

[Red Storm]

if you have prime, unlimited for photos, 5gb for video.

It's unlimited yes, but I believe each individual photo has to be 2MB or less. I don't remember the exact number, but there is definitely some caveats to the unlimited, which also goes for Google Photos and other photo storage services too.

I pay for 1TB of Google Drive storage, and most of that is used for photo backups.