Amazon Drive allows users to aggregate all of their digital content, including photos and videos, in one place. The Cloud Drive is build in to Amazon devices. Users have secure access from any computer, or via their free mobile apps. Amazon Drive offers a free 3-month trial, and pricing packages based on what type of storage users seek. For $11.99/yr, users can store unlimited photos plus 5GB of videos and other files. For $59.99/yr, users can upgrade to unlimited everything (photos, videos,…
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Dropbox
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Dropbox is a cloud storage solution, equipped with features that help users to save time, improve productivity, and collaborate with others. Users can edit PDFs, share videos, sign documents, and collaborate with stakeholders without leaving Dropbox.
Dropbox provides robust features and collaboration tools. It’s great for organizations that store sensitive data or want to work in the cloud. Amazon Drive offers flexible pricing and unlimited storage for photos, making it ideal for organizations that mainly store photos, or don’t need the advanced features offered by Dropbox.
Features
Dropbox and Amazon Drive both offer the basic features for cloud storage solutions, but there are also some standout features for each one. Dropbox includes collaboration tools for stored files, version history for stored files, and many software integrations. Amazon Drive includes unlimited photo storage, flexible pricing plans, including a free option, and fast upload speed.
Limitations
Dropbox and Amazon Drive both have distinct strengths, but they also have some key limitations. Dropbox’s limitations include no free option for businesses, no 24/7 Phone support, and slow upload speed. Amazon Drive’s weaknesses include that files can’t be edited in the cloud, no file version history, and no file encryption.
Pricing
Dropbox has three plans for businesses: the standard plan includes 5TB of storage for $12.50 per month per user, the advanced plan offers unlimited storage for $20.00 per month per user, and the enterprise plan is priced depending on the size of the organization.
Amazon Drive has a free plan which includes 5GB of storage. They also offer 13 other plans that provide unlimited photo storage and 100GB to 30TB of general storage starting at $19.99/year. Amazon Drive uses a single master account for all plans.
Features
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Dropbox
File Sharing & Management
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Amazon Drive (discontinued)
8.4
Ratings
0% below category average
Dropbox
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Versioning
9.00 Ratings
7.50 Ratings
Video files
7.00 Ratings
7.80 Ratings
Audio files
8.00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Document collaboration
9.00 Ratings
7.70 Ratings
Access control
9.00 Ratings
7.80 Ratings
File search
8.90 Ratings
7.60 Ratings
Device sync
8.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
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Amazon Drive (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
4% below category average
Dropbox
7.9
Ratings
9% below category average
User and role management
8.00 Ratings
7.80 Ratings
File organization
9.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Device management
8.00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
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Amazon Drive can be helpful in a variety of scenarios. It works best as a cloud back up - a place to store files, photos, and videos that are important and need to be safeguarded. I would not recommend it for collaborative document management and feel that there are other platforms better suited for that need. Amazon Drive can be programmed to upload specific folders from your desktop computer automatically. This is very helpful and takes the guesswork out of protecting your documents.
Dropbox is great for everyone. Data on a hard drive is no longer secure. Learned the hard way when a hard drive fried. It's great for families, students, artists, entrepreneurs, consultants, small businesses, startups, graphic designers, and photographers. Did I leave anyone out?
I’d like to be able to hover over an image/document and have it expand/enlarge without actually opening it
I’d love to see a carousel that lets me thumb through more quickly
I’m almost always in thumbnail view. I’d like to see them re-organize automatically when something is moved or deleted instead of leaving an empty space.
Even though it has its shortcomings, Dropbox is an exceptionally useful product for simple file sharing. It’s intelligent design and user-friendly interface have continued to facilitate project completion. However, as we expand, we will probably look to other solutions for storage and sharing as we undertake larger and more intensely collaborative projects
The system is very easy to use and it's use of apps for almost all devices and hardware makes it even easier to manage and store photos and documents. I highly recommend this as an easy to use solution for novices!
It works extremely well, and we have never had any issues with connecting or sharing files. It's very easy to use, and any team member can share, add, and delete files to a virtual drive. This is extremely helpful, and it's an amazing tool to use, ensuring everyone can connect and work together effectively.
Dropbox is really useful, you can access any file from anywhere and you can upload and even edit files online, but, sometimes it can be slow. Downloading, uploading, and syncing is a bit slow, it can take several minutes. Furthermore, the search engine for large amounts of data can be slow too and it is not powerful.
Overall great software to use for file share, storage, and collaboration. Its security is great and the user management is spot on. The only thing that makes me dock it a point is that the device management as a subset of user management is kind of clunky. It hasn't been an issue yet, but it could compromise security in the future. Overall, would recommend
They immediately responded like in an example that I gave where one of our staff members accidentally deleted the whole Special Hope Network Dropbox, we immediately contacted Dropbox they walked us through the steps of how to retrieve the information and luckily enough we were able to retrieve the entire Dropbox and we have had back and forth with Dropbox on what to do when an employee leaves how to remove them how to add another employee.
I did not personally take any training for Dropbox so I am self taught but I know when our Vice President selected Dropbox, he personally did do some training modules on it and I'm assuming it was very easy and simple to understand since he now acts like he is a pro at it!
I needed to stay current in improving my daily operations. Dropbox was suggested to me by a former colleague two-years ago and I've been using it just fine ever since.
If you compare based on functionality and user-friendliness, other services like Google Drive and Dropbox are better options. However, if you are simply looking for somewhere to securely and reliably host your digital files, Amazon Cloud Drive is a great option. Adding to that the fact that Amazon Cloud Drive is far more cost effective over time and comes with Amazon's well-known reliability and professional support, you'll find you have all the reasons you need to select it as your go-to for cloud storage.
I prefer the layout and visual aspect of Dropbox as it mirrors my files on my computer. I feel that I am more organized, and it's easier to find my files in Dropbox than it was with Google Drive.
Being free, everything ACD gives is profit. In this service, I have saved files for years and I find the storage very complete and secure. I think it is possible to earn even more if other services are included in the cloud, such as Microsoft Office 360 does it with OneDrive.
