Bad news this week. Amazon is shutting down “Amazon Drive,” the unlimited document and photo storage service it offered as free service to Amazon Prime membershear.
I made considerable use of it when we moved from Kaaawa, and archived thousands of pages of documents, along with tens of thousands of photos and video.
Amazon says the photos are safe, having been automatically transferred to its Amazon Photos service. But documents are a different story. The company has provided lots of advance warning, and all the documents will be available to download and transfer elsewhere until the end of 2023.
But trying to find and download all kinds of documents is going to be grueling and a challenge. And the archived documents include old tax records and financial records, including those necessary for figuring out the cost basis of old investments.
Of course, I fear procrastinating and finding myself late next year scrambling to get it done at the last minute. Isn’t that the way of the world?
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IAN, I was not aware of Amazon’s free (until 2023) document storage service for Prime members (nor was I aware of their interesting sounding photo service). Out of curiosity, how much will Amazon be charging for their document service?
And hopefully some of your tech savvy readers will share some other online options for document and photo storage.
The notice we received said Amazon will still continue to support photo and video storage. They are just ending their storage of other file types.
I use and like their photo storage. In particular, I like that I can like view our stored photos with Amazon Fire devices.
Guess Bezos needed more money put aside for a new pet space project or bigger yacht (compared to the most recent one that required a bridge in Rotterdam to be dismantled against the wishes of the local citizenry there).
(an excellent read on that situation here): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/business/bezos-yacht-rotterdam.html