{"id":16102,"date":"2011-03-29T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=16102"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:02:36","slug":"amazon-launches-cloud-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/amazon-launches-cloud-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches Cloud Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Unless you have been asleep under a tree for the last week, you can&#8217;t have failed to notice that Amazon has done something pretty impressive &#8211; it has stolen Google&#8217;s thunder by launching <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/clouddrive\/learnmore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cloud Drive<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/clouddrive\/learnmore\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16104 aligncenter\" title=\"amazon_cloud_drive_1\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/amazon_cloud_drive_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/amazon_cloud_drive_1.png 302w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/amazon_cloud_drive_1-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though the name is a little clich\u00e9d, it does give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. Cloud Drive is a <strong>cloud-based file storage service<\/strong> provided by Amazon. You upload the files you want to store and access &#8211; music, videos, photos, etc &#8211; and are then free to access them whenever you want using the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html\/ref=amb_link_355702102_2?location=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/dmusic\/mp3\/player&amp;token=661ABEA050EC7ED103349320C53489637F654274&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-3&amp;pf_rd_r=1732M35PX0Z7D34V0BF7&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1292120922&amp;pf_rd_i=2658409011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cloud Player<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; an internet based service for Macs and PCs, but currently\u00a0only\u00a0available in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Drive is free for up to 5 GB of media &#8211; after that, you have to pay. Interestingly, Amazon are providing mobile access, but only for <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.amazon.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, Blackberry and Palm. Thinking back to last week and the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/amazonappstore.en.softonic.com\/phones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Appstore for Android<\/a>, it seems that the internet giant is intent on targeting the vast market that the iPhone hasn&#8217;t yet managed to tap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you have been asleep under a tree for the last week, you can&#8217;t have failed to notice that Amazon has done something pretty impressive &#8211; it has stolen Google&#8217;s thunder by launching Cloud Drive. Even though the name is a little clich\u00e9d, it does give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/amazon-launches-cloud-drive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon launches Cloud Drive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-16102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334348,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions\/334348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}