Only recently did Amazon cause a tremor when the US group announced that it would raise prices in Germany. The next hammer will follow in January 2023. Amazon shuts down a service and deletes the data of all customers.
At Amazon , things are apparently not going as well as the group hopes. After two quarters in a row with a loss of billions, Amazon has raised the prices for Prime members – sometimes drastically. In the annual subscription, the Prime service has become 30 percent more expensive. The price increase was introduced faster than originally planned . Apparently the company needs money. This is also shown by the discontinuation of a service that will disappear in January 2023. Users must find an alternative and save their data before Amazon deletes them.
AMAZON WILL DELETE YOUR DATA
Almost twelve years ago, in March 2011, the company announced Amazon Drive. The service was supposed to be secure cloud storage and primarily used for file backup for Prime users. But now the service falls victim to the cutbacks. It ends on December 31, 2023. All data and files that you as a user have stored in the cloud then disappear with the Amazon service. So anyone who has important documents stored in Drive must save them before the company deletes them. Now the countdown is on. Because as of January 31, 2023, no more files can be uploaded to the cloud.
People who use the service should not only be upset because Amazon is discontinuing it, but also because the US company just increased the cost of the Prime subscription. The reason for the end of the service is: “We are taking the opportunity to focus our efforts more on Amazon Photos to offer our customers a special solution for storing photos and videos.”
THOSE ARE THE ALTERNATIVES
Accordingly, Amazon Photos is to replace the Drive service. The problem with this: While you could upload files of all kinds to Amazon Drive, Photos is intended for pictures and videos. If you still want to save documents and other files in the cloud, you have to look for an alternative. Google (Drive), Microsoft (OneDrive) or Dropbox offer up to 5 GB of free storage space in the cloud. PCloud , which claims to be “Europe’s most secure cloud storage”, even offers 10 GB of free storage space.
