Amazon Drive to Finish, I know quite a few on here use them for backup.

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Over the last 11 years, Amazon Drive has served as a secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files. On December 31, 2023, we will no longer support Amazon Drive to more fully focus our efforts on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos. We will continue to provide customers the ability to safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with Amazon Photos.

As part of retiring Amazon Drive, on January 31, 2023, Amazon will no longer support uploading files on the Amazon Drive website.

You will still be able to access and manage your files on Amazon Drive until December 31, 2023.
 
This is not good. This is what I use for my offsite back up.

Works well, RAW plus sidecar file go over. Google Drive or OneDrive it has to be.

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It doesn’t effect photos only other types of files. They are doing away with drive to concentrate on Amazon photos and video storage

They emailed everyone that has prime about this about 2 months ago then again a month ago and then again today.
 
f/2.8 said:
It doesn’t effect photos only other types of files. They are doing away with drive to concentrate on Amazon photos and video storage

They emailed everyone that has prime about this about 2 months ago then again a month ago and then again today.
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I've had Prime for several years and the email yesterday was the first I'd heard of it.
 
I use Backblaze for my cloud backup. Unlimited storage and it constantly backs up from my computer, so whenever I drop another SD card of RAW files onto the hard drive, it starts backing them up. No limits of file types or sizes.
It's $70 per year, so about £60. Cheaper than the Google One option which is £7.99 per month for 2TB.
See the comparisons on Backblaze.
 
SFTPhotography said:
Google Drive or OneDrive it has to be.
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Two providers I would not touch with a barge pole. Throw in dropbox to the list for the completeness. Google is the worst as it tries to take over the whole PC's files, and still does after you tell them not to (and they do so with any other withheld permission).

I use MEGA for client files transfer, and my backups go to my own NAS server. Storing several terabytes on a globalist cloud platform is neither practical nor safe undertaking. Let me guess not many would encrypt files with 3rd party tool before letting them handle it.
 
Bristolian said:
I've had Prime for several years and the email yesterday was the first I'd heard of it.
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same with me. It seems to indicate that any photo or video file on Drive will be available on Photo so unless you have documents stored on Drive should not mean any change.
 
+ 1 for back blaze and if you get on with the command line their b2 service is even cheaper!
 
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