Amazon Drive ends on December 31, 2023, 11 years of history

It was found that the cloud storage service Amazon Drive will stop accepting new files at the end of January 2023, and the entire service will be terminated on December 31st. Amazon explains that the reason for the abolition is to focus on Amazon Photos.

Amazon.com: FAQ: Deprecation of Amazon Drive
https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=23943055011

Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023 - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/29/23283743/amazon-drive-cloud-storage-shutting-down-2023

In an email sent to Amazon Drive users, Amazon said, ``We will stop supporting Amazon Drive on December 31, 2023, and will focus entirely on storing photos and videos with Amazon Photos.'' He announced that the service will be discontinued at the end of 2023.

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— Sean Slater (@SeanSlater) July 29, 2022

According to the FAQ site published by Amazon, the Amazon Drive app will be removed from the Android and iOS app stores on October 31, 2022. After that, on January 31, 2023, file uploads via browsers will no longer be supported, and files will no longer be viewable or downloadable on December 31, 2023.

Photos and videos saved in Amazon Drive are automatically migrated to Amazon Photos, and can be accessed from Amazon Photos even after the end of Amazon Drive service. Amazon asked users to download other files locally or move them to another service before the service ends.

Access to Amazon Drive from a browser is possible from this link . Also, when downloading files larger than 5GB or 1000 files at once, the Amazon Photos desktop app is required.

With the end of Amazon Drive, Amazon's cloud storage service, which has continued for 11 years since 2011, will no longer be supported except for storing photos and videos. The IT news site The Verge said, ``Perhaps Amazon has a big idea to compete with Google Photos and Apple's iCloud photo library.However, this news is about storing files on Amazon's trusted servers. It definitely disappoints those who are used to it, ”he commented.