Amazon’s Prime membership just keeps getting better and better. With Amazon’s announcement today, it makes Prime a no-brainer for virtually all photographers.
Amazon Prime members now get unlimited photo storage added to their already impressive list of benefits. The free cloud photo storage includes photos from mobile devices and computers. There are iOS and Android apps to easily connect to Amazon Cloud Drive (where the photos are stored), which is tied to your Amazon account.
The smartphone apps will auto-save your images from your phone if you so choose. Additionally, the app allows you to view your photos anytime, from anywhere.
The file size limit is a massive 2GB, which should account for the vast majority images produced by photographers today. File format support includes the following:
- .bmp
- .gif
- .jpeg
- .jpg
- .png
- .raw
- .tif
- .tiff
Amazon Prime runs $99/year for the membership. Personally, I have been a member for several years. Until this unlimited photo storage deal came along, the biggest benefit for me was free 2-day shipping. But there are many more benefits to Amazon Prime. Here’s a quick breakdown:
- Free unlimited photo storage
- Free 2-day shipping
- Free streaming of over 40,000 TV shows and movies
- Free music streaming from the Prime Music collection
- Early access to Lightning deals
More details available here and here on Amazon.
I’ve already got my tech support e-mail question in to them… I’m thinking this may be the perfect off-site backup solution for me. Already a Prime member, so why not?
As long as it’s simple and the ability to download is easy I think this solves me question of what service to purchase.
I didn’t read it the same way.
Heres from the site you gave:
Requirements for Uploading Photos & Videos
The photo or video is smaller than 2 GB
The video is less than 20 minutes long
You have sufficient storage space available on your Cloud Drive and on your computer
File and folder names contain fewer than 255 characters
Doesn’t that mean I have to buy storage on their cloud.
As long as I have room on their cloud I can upload unlimited photos. That’s the same deal you get at the gas station. You can get unlimited gas as long as you pay for it.
I hope I’m wrong.
Good, I was wrong. It works just like you said. So here’s a better site to explain it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?_encoding=UTF8&nodeId=201480950
It says this service can’t be used by professional photographers. You also can’t upload RAW images.
Still very cool for my family pics.
Well I’m a happy little skipper. I’ve prime already myself. Free 2day shipping has more paid for its self then add the fact weve watch lots of free movies and now this free storage (jpeg) will be awesome.
According to above Photography Bay article:
The file size limit is a massive 2GB, which should account for the vast majority images produced by photographers today. File format support includes the following:
•.bmp
•.gif
•.jpeg
•.jpg
•.png
•.raw
•.tif
•.tiff
2gb is a joke. Real photographers need a minimum 2,000 GB to fully store raw plus jpg files in the cloud. So until then it’s not worth even getting started on one more backup option.
That’s a 2GB file. The aggregate storage of those files is unlimited.
Some (real) photographers do save jpegs BTW.