Amazon.com Inc. has decided to expand its cloud services to give a tough time to rivals such as Dropbox. It would be nice to be able to upload a photo or video from your device directly from within Amazon Cloud Drive app. Photos that are added to Amazon Photos do appear in the app quickly, though. You can view, share, or link to supported files – PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and more – much like you can with services like Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive.
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Amazon now offers a $60-per-year unlimited storage plan, which allows users to store anything they want in Cloud Drive.
The Android versions of the apps arrived in their respective stores in late June, but the iOS version just went live over the holiday weekend here in the USA Amazon has yet to make a formal announcement about their debut. But if Cloud Drive is anything, it’s cheap.
The app itself is called Cloud Drive and it provides users with folder views of everything they have stored in Amazon’s cloud.
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The new mobile apps are even more limited. But Amazon’s expansion of its Cloud Drive service to mobile could hint that the company has larger ambitions around this service for the long-term. It’s intended as an all-purpose complement to the photo- and music-specific apps that Amazon already offers, with an emphasis on productivity. However, the apps don’t include file editing, uploads from mobile, automatic syncing or the ability to move files or edit their metadata, the reported noted. At least Amazon tells TechCrunch that it plans to invest in both apps going forward.
