PRICE 5GB, free; 20GB+, from £6/yr; from amazon.co.uk/clouddrive
Given Amazon’s background with its high-end AWS cloud services, you’d expect something special from its consumer-level cloud-storage service. Sadly, you’d be disappointed. Amazon’s customers can’t grumble about getting 5GB of free space, while Fire Phone owners and Amazon Prime subscribers get unlimited photo storage, but this is still a surprisingly basic effort.
For a start, Cloud Drive no longer offers sync capabilities. The Sync desktop client that was available last year has been pulled in favour of a client that offers little more than basic uploads and downloads. The Android and iOS apps support photo uploads, but nothing else. If you’re looking for document-sharing or media-streaming features, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
The desktop client is lean and functional, with a simple drag-and-drop interface for…
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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2015