Amazon Takes Storage Wars to the Cloud, Now Offers Unlimited Plans

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Never run out of cloud storage again

The future of cloud storage is likely to come down to price and supplementary features rather than allotted storage space. Looking to push the issue, Amazon today announced a pair of unlimited storage options with Amazon Cloud Drive that are available to anyone and everyone, not just Amazon Prime members. Amazon isn't the only cloud provider that offers unlimited space, but it might be the first to pitch it to home consumers on a standalone basis.
Microsoft also offers unlimited online storage through OneDrive, though you have to subscribe to Office 365. So does Dropbox, though it's aimed at Business users and is significantly more expensive at $15/month than Amazon's. And then there's Google, which offers unlimited storage through its Google Apps Unlimited and Google Apps for Education services.
As for Amazon, it's new Unlimited Photos Plan is free for three months and then runs $11.99 per year, so about a buck a month. You can store as many photos as you like in Amazon's Cloud Drive, plus 5GB of additional storage for videos and other documents and files.
The second option is Amazon's Unlimited Everything Plan. It too is free for the first three months, and then $59.99 per year ($5 per month). You can store whatever you want with this plan -- photos, videos, files, documents, movies, music, etc.
"Most people have a lifetime of birthdays, vacations, holidays, and everyday moments stored across numerous devices. And, they don’t know how many gigabytes of storage they need to back all of them up," said Josh Petersen, Director of Amazon Cloud Drive. "With the two new plans we are introducing today, customers don’t need to worry about storage space—they now have an affordable, secure solution to store unlimited amounts of photos, videos, movies, music, and files in one convenient place."
If you're interested in trying out either plan, go here.
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