When it was first introduced, you could also use it to stream music.
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But Amazon's services aren't just for corporations.Īmazon Cloud Drive provides 5GB of free storage. When you think Amazon and clouds, you probably think about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the biggest public cloud service. Here's what's what with them in early 2013: Amazon Cloud Drive These services are popping up everywhere, and they're changing prices, amounts of free storage, and additional services almost every day.
In the six years since then, it seems like everyone is offering some kind of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud storage.
So after he "tried everything I could find, but each product inevitably suffered problems with internet latency, large files, bugs, or just made me think too much", he came up with the idea of the first popular cloud-based personal file storage service. My home desktop's power supply literally exploded one day, killing one of my hard drives, and I had no backups," he said. "I was drowning in email attachments, trying to share files for my previous startup. While remote file storage has been with us for decade - I had remote storage on a Unix server using file transfer protocol (ftp) and NFS (Network File System) in the 80s - cloud storage for the masses didn't really get going until 2007 when Drew Houston, Dropbox's CEO and founder, got sick and tired of never being able to "remember to keep my USB drive with me". Dropbox is only one of many worthy personal or small business cloud storage services. It is possible to have a free/cheap, good, and fast personal cloud storage service? Believe it or not, it is.
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