What you must know
- The end date for Amazon Drive is December 31, 2023.
- Images and videos from Drive should be immediately saved to Amazon Photos, leaving your files remain.
- Amazon Drive will stop accepting new uploads on January 31, 2023, although it will still offer you until December 31 to download and view any old files.
This Monday, Amazon notified subscribers via email that the Drive cloud storage service will be discontinued in 2023.
Users of Amazon Drive are informed in the notice that the service will be discontinued in 2019. Similar to Google Drive, Amazon Drive is a cloud storage platform where customers may store backup copies of their work. Users receive 5GB of free upload space through the service, which is available on the web, Android, and iOS.
The business intends to “more completely focus our efforts on photographs and video storage with Amazon Photos,” according to Amazon.
Users may learn more about the situation on the company’s FAQ page on Amazon Drive’s deprecation(opens in new tab). On that website, Amazon states that as of December 31, 2023, the Drive cloud service app will no longer be available in the iOS and Android app stores. However, Amazon will stop allowing you to upload files to the Amazon Drive website on January 31, 2023, nearly a full year earlier.
As an Amazon user, your images and videos in Amazon Drive have been saved automatically to Amazon Photos, the business claims. Additionally, users will have until December 31, 2023, the official shutdown date of Amazon Drive, to download or view any leftover data. Step-by-step instructions for retrieving your goods from Amazon Drive and terminating your membership are also provided on the FAQ page. According to the support website, utilizing the Amazon Photos Desktop software to download and store your photos is recommended if you are experiencing problems downloading your files owing to size restrictions.
Even while Amazon Drive isn’t precisely among the greatest cloud storage providers, its shutdown reduces the number of available options. Users still have plenty of time to be ready before they lose access to the service’s files.
