Personally, I’ve always been inclined to remote store on my own computer at a friend or relative’s house. At least, not one of the commercial solutions that’s just hosted on some random computer somewhere in the world. AdvertisementsĪnd while remote storage is part of the whole 3-2-1 backup system, it doesn’t necessarily need to be cloud storage. New ones are coming up, old ones are disappearing, the quotas keep changing, the apps work in strange ways and it just becomes too much hassle to keep up with it all and keep researching which service is going to give you what you need every time you’re forced to switch from one you’ve been using happily for years to something completely new and unknown. No matter which one you pick, somebody keeps moving the goalposts. It’s like you can’t win with these cloud backup services – whether it’s your whole system or just photos. But who knows for how much longer that will stick around? And even if it does, what will it continue to offer? We spoke about potential cloud storage options a couple of years ago when Google Photos ditched their unlimited storage and free tier and it might be worth shopping around now to find something that better suits your needs, particularly if photos and videos isn’t all you want to back up. If you are having trouble downloading your files on the web app due to size limitations, we recommend using the Amazon Photos Desktop app to download and save your files.Īlthough Amazon Drive is going away, Amazon Photos, as mentioned, is not. We recommend using the Amazon Drive website to review and download your non-photo and non-video files from Amazon Drive. In order to get copies of everything locally, Amazon says: These will be gone forever if you haven’t downloaded them and backed them up elsewhere before December 2023.Īnd even though your photos should be safe when Amazon Drive disappears – as Amazon automatically backed up the photos you have on Amazon Drive to Amazon Photos a few months ago – it’s still a good idea to make sure you’ve got those downloaded and backed up elsewhere, too. Non-photos (and non-videos), though, are all Amazon Drive. If you delete from one, it disappears from them both. But when it comes to photos and video, the two services essentially share the same storage. Amazon Drive is going away and Amazon Photos is not.

Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive are two separate services.

Amazon photos desktop app