Wow what a Saga. Who would have ever thought, I used Amazon S3 for business backup going back to the early days, it was rock solid.
Then they came out with Reduced Redundancy then Glacier each offering less redundancy then speed but reduced price so they have 3 levels of cloud storage, actually just looked and there are some other options not relevant.
I'm just guessing here is what I think happened on the way. Someone at Amazon said hey we want a cheaper unlimited product and AWS S3 wanted nothing of it knowing how hard managing price per MB is so some clown spun off a new product and took zero advice or expertise from the S3 group and they seem to be making it up as they go along. I think they wanted to keep consumer and business separate but what an ugly mess they could have avoided. The S3 expertise could have been brought in and just re-branded with less support and some limitations but using the same infrastructure and obvious world of knowledge they already had at building cloud storage. Maybe they did do it properly but just setup a dodgy team for this product.
I thought adding unlimited $10 a month Google Apps account data would be an option but my free (Grandfathered) accounts become payable for every user and the minimum is 5 so that is how it looks. I would pay $50 a year and $10 a month for the storage but that's not an option.
Unfortunately it looks like this project is not looking good. Even if Amazon get their act together I am sure they are relying on deduplication a lot and encrypted files just won't help them there, at the end of the day I don't think they will allow unlimited encrypted, I just don't think they have a policy on it yet and we have a smart team here pushing to make something work that is probably only going to be catered for in the business category.
Now Nvidia Shield is hooking up with them that will be interesting that could be a lot of video uploads, I wonder what data transfer rates and API call limits they have set for them?
Unlimited offsite storage, I could pay double a year and be happy and pay a lot more for CloudDrive as well.
I am happy to be proven wrong though. I'm just looking forward to really using my 100mbs Australian Fibre NBN service, it sits idle a lot of the time and 99% of my Drive pool storage barely gets used, I would prefer someone else to spin all those disks and pay the power bill and do all the maintenance and happily downsize, A couple of 1TB SSD's in a small case would do for me with the above working reliably. With my 1TB month internet though it would take a couple of years to upload. Maybe time to do a bit of pruning of stuff I will never watch.
