That said, Amazon charges about half of what Dropbox does for similar storage tiers. The service’s pricing isn’t quite as affordable as Microsoft’s for SkyDrive, which charges $10 per year for 27GB, $25 per year for 57GB, or $50 per year for 107GB. You can store unlimited Amazon-purchased MP3s on any plan with the paid tiers, you can also store an unlimited amount of digital music acquired elsewhere. You can pay for more storage, with easy pricing: At each level, the price is a dollar per gigabyte the 20GB plan costs $20 per year, with plans also available at 50GB, 100GB, 200GB, 500GB, and 1000GB storage levels. You get 5GB of storage free with Amazon Cloud Drive. (There’s also a Windows client for Vista and Windows 7, if you roll that way.) Starting Wednesday, Amazon began offering the Amazon Cloud Drive desktop app for Macs running Snow Leopard or Lion. The roster sort of sounds like Santa’s reindeer roll-call: On Dropbox, on SkyDrive, on iCloud, on Google! And now, Amazon becomes the latest company/sleigh-puller to dive into the Desktop Cloud Storage Wars of 2012.Īmazon Cloud Drive initially launched more than a year ago.
