

#AMAZON PHOTOS ISSUES DOWNLOAD#
Access to Amazon Drive remains available until the service is shut down.Īmazon notes that customers should download files stored on Drive before Decemif they want to retain copies. We will continue to provide customers the ability to safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with Amazon Photos.Ĭustomers who have files stored on Amazon Drive receive the notification. 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. Over the last 11 years, Amazon Drive has served as a secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files. Amazon Drive is shutting down in 2023Īmazon notes in the announcement that it is shutting down Amazon Drive, its file storage service, on Decemto focus on Amazon Photos. Amazon shut down the plan two years later. A year later, Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited was launched, which gave customers unlimited file storage for $59.99 per year. Then, in 2014, Amazon introduced unlimited photo storage for Cloud Drive. We warned potential customers about the implications of using Amazon Drive back in 2011, but did provide instructions on saving music to Amazon Cloud Drive and local PCs as well.Īmazon launched a desktop app for Cloud Drive in 2012, which worked on Macs and PCs only. Paid plans were available for customers with larger storage requirements. Launched in 2011 as Amazon Cloud Drive, all Amazon customers suddenly had 5 Gigabytes of online storage space at their disposal free of charge. Non-Prime members get 5 Gigabytes of storage that is shared between photos and videos. Prime members get unlimited full-resolution storage and 5 Gigabytes of storage for video. Amazon Photos remains available, and any photo or video files have been automatically saved to Amazon Photos according to Amazon.

Customers need to download files from the service before its termination to maintain copies of them.
