amazon photos vs google photos vs icloud

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As the chart below shows, most services limit the amount of storage available at no cost. But I am not sure how well I would be able to view these media files on demand when I am on my phone.Free sounds great, but you have to be prepared to make a few compromises.

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It seems I will have to use Amazon Photos Windows app to view all photos stored there, which will be a shame.Īdditionally, I want to avoid running into the issue of duplicating files across multiple platforms, so I was intending to switch off backup to Gsuite and iCloud on my mobile phones, letting only photos upload to Amazon Photos and videos upload to OneDrive. I would be able to seamlessly look up my files as long as I have an internet connection - but there doesn't seem to be a way to integrate Windows in a similar manner with Amazon Photos. With OneDrive, I will have the option to keep all my files online so that my laptop's storage does not get consumed. I would then just let go of iCloud and Gsuit storage.īut I am a bit concerned about how it would pan out in the future.

What I intended to do as a next step was backup all my photos to Amazon Photos (for their unlimited photo storage) and backup videos and all documents etc to OneDrive. I have been careless in the past so much so my photos and videos have backed into Amazon Photos, iCloud and where not, and all my drives are just thirsty for more space - I definitely don't want to invest needlessly for more storage when I know I have got a large volume of duplicated files lying everywhere.

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I have taken the long and painful (but perhaps necessary) route to download all my data to my laptop and remove all duplicates. I am in the process of consolidating all my photos and videos from multiple cloud systems (iCloud, Gsuit, Amazon Photos, and OneDrive).

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So now, I have my data on a 16TB external Thunderbolt 3 unit which replicates to a 12TB unit daily, then weekly it gets replicated to an old 20TB array, from there it go to an external drive every coupla months and stored at my mums house.įree or near free cloud backups are usually castrated in one form or another as I described.Īny updates / new experiences on this issue?

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I use local storage and have my photos / docs exported every now and again to my mums house.Īs a Mac user, I had initially thought I could utilise icloud (afteral, I 'had' 2TB of storage but the problem there is with synchronisation, I have a Mac Studio, but its only got a 512GB drive, with iCloud storage it has to store data locally storage in my case.ĭespite having near on 50TB's of local storage (But only really needing 1.8-2TB's backed up) + my NAS I cant back that data in to iCloud without copying it to the main system drive. If you are not a Prime Video subscriber, you can start with 100GB storage at $1.99/month or $19.99/year or 1TB at $59/year, none of which are too shabby (more options in the screenshot below).Īlso, it includes face recognition, the very feature I would like. If you are a Prime Video subscriber, you can upload an unlimited amount of photos (though videos are limited to 5GB). I haven't done much investigation yet, but it seems like an alternative worth considering. Yesterday I found out about Amazon Photos. One of the biggest features I rely on, which I would miss terribly, is face recognition, as my photos are all tagged by who is in them and allows me to search photos by people.

Unfortunately, I am finding that what Microsoft is offering, as part of OneDrive, although they offer really generous space, is very lacking in terms of photo features. I am looking to migrate from GSuite to Microsoft's Family 365 and, as is the case with many people here, photos make up a large component of my Google use. I have only seen one mention, 3 months ago, of Amazon Photos in this subreddit, so I thought I should just bring it to everyone's attention.

Amazon photos vs google photos vs icloud