they've clearly thrown down the gauntlet on cloud storage/drive

Amazon’s New Unlimited Cloud Storage Is Absurdly Cheap

The steady march towards cheaper cloud storage has just turned into a sprint. Rather than being merely competitive with leaders like Google Drive, Dropbox, and iCloud, Amazon has decided to undercut their pricing by more than half. In some cases, much, much more.

Amazon’s Unlimited Everything plan means that you now can stash all of your digital stuff in your own private Amazon cloud locker for $60 per year. That’s compared to the $100 per year that individual Dropbox users pay for a plan capped at 1TB (there’s also a $15 per month unlimited plan for business accounts), $120 per year for 1TB on Google Drive, and $240 for the same amount on iCloud. Throw in Amazon’s three-month free trial offer—and consider that truly unlimited plans aren’t even an option for individual users on most rival services—and the unprecedented value of Amazon’s Unlimited Everything Plan comes more into focus.

Amazon's MP3s are DRM free as well. They can be played on any device and used without restrictions (well, normal copyright restrictions).

I love the idea that you can put your music up there and listen to it from the web. It's about time!

 mzpro5 wrote: 
How about stuffed/zipped files?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
it will probably be bundled with their MobileMe service. rumor article

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Apparently $100.00 per year:


*edit: mzpro got it up there first

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
$100

Seems they are charging $1/GB if you want something other than the free 5GB.
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5 GB	Free
20 GB	$20 / year
50 GB	$50 / year
100 GB	$100 / year
200 GB	$200 / year
500 GB	$500 / year
1000 GB	$1000 / year

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

I'll wait for that.  Even if it's not as good.  Because well, you know.  Yeah.

 mzpro5 wrote: 
Wonder what they'll want for 100GB.

rumor has it that Apple is planning to roll out basically the same thing in June. looks like amazon scooped them this time.

I really don't know clouds....at all.


Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles everywhere....

 hobiejoe wrote: 
Like Camelot!

And 5GB for free is nothing to sneeze at.  All my work files only come to 2.4 GB.

A cloud service? Oooh, lovely!
 
I'll have half a dozen of those lovely fluffy cumulus, they do add something to the view, and I'll take a nice soggy nimbo stratus twice a week to keep the garden well watered - oh, and night time delivery only for that last one.
 
Ta!

That's AWESOME! I already pay to store my stuff in the clouds, but I worry that the place may disappear, along with my stuff. Pretty sure that won't happen with Amazon.

When i opened Amazon this morning this was on the home page:



Interesting.  Wave of the future?  No more HD's everything in cyberspace?