So far Prime seems pretty good. I had to move because I'd hit 1TB of GPhotos storage, and because Google's pricing is crazy (the next step up, instead of being 2TB @ £16 a month, is 10TB at £80 a month - which is absurd). Whereas Amazon do unlimited storage for £55 per year (yes, less per year than Google per month) of any kind of file. Better still, if you have Prime (which I do) then you get unlimited full/original-res photo storage for free. No-brainer really.
My primary use-case is as a backup of my NAS photo storage (about 200,000 photos), so I run rclone on my Synology which pushes all of my pictures up to Amazon Drive periodically (I run a cron job). It works well, and is fast/efficient. I also use it to back up a few gigs of documents and home videos too. Cons that I've found so far: 1. Accessing the photos on my Android phone isn't as slick as the Google Photos app; the Prime photos app doesn't appear to show the pictures in the cloud, but I expect that's coming. There is a third party app (A+ Gallery or something) that supports Amazon Drive, and there's nice a gallery app called F-Stop that's going to support it soon. Not sure what's out there for iOS. 2. Google's photo search/recognition is awesome for finding pictures in a big collection; Amazon has an equivalent in their 'Family Vault' product, but that's US-only at the moment so I can't use it (I'm in the UK). I'm happy to wait though, I'm sure they'll roll it out globally, and in the meantime I'm happy to sync my photos to GPhotos in low-res (== free) as a backup search tool. Well, assuming the API still works, anyway. 3. I upload albums as folders, but Amazon doesn't auto-create albums from folders (and doing it manually isn't practical for 2,600 albums). But since I had to write my own sync app for Google Photos, writing an automatic album creation tool for Amazon might just be what it takes (unless somebody else gets there first). In all, pretty chuffed with Amazon Prime Photos so far - particularly at the price - and the main thing is that unlike Google they seem to be heavily invested in moving the platform forward, so it's only going to get better. On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 17:48 Dave Brueck <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, it's hard to disagree with that assessment. :( I mean, there's often > pretty strict rules in place about what can be talked about when it comes > to future plans, especially at a publicly traded company, but in those > cases it gets mitigated somewhat by more emphasis on other communication, > on frequent updates, on smooth upgrade paths, etc. - so that even if as an > employee you aren't allowed to talk about the future, your users can put > two and two together or at least feel assured because there is a healthy > and thriving developer community. > > The turn down of the Picasa API would be tolerable if we had some > indication that an actual Google Photos API somewhat imminent - heck, it'd > be helpful just to know if an API is in fact coming at all. > > Anyway, have you been pretty happy with Amazon Prime Photos so far? At > this point I've narrowed my search for an alternative to that and Flickr - > I've crossed off the list anything that is /too/ tied to a particular > ecosystem (e.g. stuff from Apple or MSFT), anything too small/obscure, > Dropbox wasn't a good fit for my particular case, and I stopped looking at > a couple of others that were focused more on just on cloud storage/backup > and had little in terms of photo/video-related features, so barring any > other discoveries I'm down to Amazon and Flickr. > > Flickr's API, feature set, and device integration all seem decent enough, > although I'm still at the beginning stages of a test integration so time > will tell. On the negative side, you can't seem to get more than 1 TB of > storage or have videos more than a couple of minutes long (although I'm not > sure either will be an issue for my use case so maybe not a big deal). As > far as Amazon goes, I've been an AWS user for ages but don't think that's > particularly relevant and all I've done so far is skim through some of the > Prime Photos docs so I'd be curious to hear your experience. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
