Top 3 Ways to Perform Amazon Cloud Backup | Step-by-step Guide

About Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Photos

Did you know that Amazon cloud backup Prime members include unlimited photo storage space? This is what made me interested in Amazon backup services. After my investigation, I found that it is very remarkable.

Amazon Cloud Drive, as known as Amazon Drive, is a cloud storage application managed by Amazon, which offers cloud unlimited space for storing photos, video, or music. The service ensures file and document backup, sharing of the same thanks to the compatibility with the major platforms used and also an integrated photo printing service, not available in all countries.

Different countries have different support storage plans, as shown below:

Amazon Photos is an application for storing and backing up photos, and videos. As Amazon Prime members, Prime Photos provides unlimited storage for photos and RAW files and provides 5GB of storage for video and other files. Prime Photos is for personal use only, non-commercial use.

Amazon cloud backup pricing listed below:

Amazon Cloud Backup with Amazon Drive Webpage

Using Amazon Drive is very simple: we can in fact access the service anywhere through its web version using any browser such as Safari, Chrome or Microsoft Edge. For Windows and Mac platforms it is possible to download Amazon desktop application.

Here are the steps to perform Amazon cloud backup with Amazon Drive webpage:

Step 1. Log in your Amazon cloud drive account at www.amazon.com/clouddrive/

Step 2. Click Upload button at the left side.

Step 3. Then click Files, A folder option, or directly drag and drop files anywhere on this page.

Step 4. Browse to select file or folder to upload, click Upload.

Step 5. Choose a destination folder in Amazon cloud drive, click Add to the folder you choose.

Then the Amazon cloud backup process will be finished quickly.

Amazon Cloud Backup via Amazon Photos Webpage

Except for Amazon cloud drive webpage, you could use the Amazon Photos to upload photos and videos to Amazon Cloud Drive. Here are the detailed steps to backup files to Amazon Cloud Drive via Amazon Photos:

Step 1. login the www.amazon.com/photos/ with your Amazon cloud account.

Step 2. click + Add button at the top right corner. Then select Upload photos or Upload folder to select the photos or videos you want to backup to Amazon Cloud Drive.

Or drag and drop the photos to Amazon Photos to directly backup files to Amazon cloud drive. Then, Amazon cloud backup will be finished.

Amazon Cloud Backup via Amazon Photos Desktop App

Step 1. sign in your Amazon cloud drive account, click Backup > Add backup subsequently.

Step 2. Choose the photos and videos to backup, it will show like this, change the backup destination, and other settings, click Save to perform Amazon cloud backup automatically.

What to do if Amazon Drive storage full?

When your Amazon Cloud Drive is full and you don't want to pay any fees to upgrade, you can try to transfer Amazon Cloud Drive to another free cloud which has extra free space via the free cloud backup service CBackupper, so that you can free up some space in Amazon Cloud Drive.

CBackupper is a professional and reliable cloud-to-cloud backup web service that can help you quickly and directly perform cloud to cloud backup. And CBackupper does’t use the computer as a transmission intermediary, so it will not occupy the computer's hard disk, memory and network resources.

1. Create a new CBackupper account and sign in to CBackupper.

2. Click "Added Clouds" tab > Add Cloud to add Amazon cloud drive and other clouds like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc, and authorize CBackupper to access your clouds.

3. Select Backup Tasks > New Task.

4. Click Add Source to add Amazon Cloud drive, Click Add Destination to add another cloud drive. Then press Start Backup to backup Amazon Drive to other clouds.

Then, you could delete files in Amazon cloud drive to free up space, and backup other files to Amazon cloud drive.

If you perfer to backup files to cloud, please download the CBackupper desktop app to automatically backup files.

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Conclusion

Amazon cloud backup services is a good choice for your data storage but it only has 5GB. When there is not enough space, you can use CBackupper to transfer Amazon Drive to other clouds to free up space.

CBackupper is the best choice for your data transfer. No need to pay at all, and the new user can easily operate, no longer have to worry about the lack of space in Cloud Storage.