Amazon ends its unlimited Cloud Drive option

After providing unlimited cloud storage space at a super-attractive price, Amazon changes its mind and puts an end to its unlimited storage option, making current users think twice about ever trusting Amazon again.

Google Drive gets price cuts for yearly subscriptions

With the ever increasing internet access speeds, using the cloud for storage is becoming a lot more appealing, and Google lends a hand be offering a nice discount for those willing to pay for Google Drive one year at a time.

Amazon ends Unlimited Photos cloud storage for the public - now a Amazon Prime exclusive

If you though having unlimited cloud storage for your photos for just $11.99 per year was too good to be true, it seems Amazon thinks the same, as it has terminated this option for the public and made it a Amazon Prime exclusive.

Apple Music deletes 122GB of music from composer's computer

Cloud services blur the line between local content and "cloud content" and it isn't easy to sometimes know what's really going on. For a music composer, a tiny mistake has cost him a life's worth of music and carefully created playlists, all thanks to Apple Music service.

Microsoft ends OneDrive unlimited storage and cuts free capacity from 15 to 5GB

The cloud may be the future, but it looks like it will be a bumpy road till we get there, as Microsoft has just showed by going back on its word and terminates the unlimited storage plan, and cuts the storage capacity for both free and paying customers.

Amazon Cloud Drive gives you unlimited space for $1 or $5/month

Data, data and more data. No matter how big our hard drives get, we always seem to be able to find a way to fill them - and in big part thanks to the high megapixel cameras and HD video (soon to be Ultra HD 4K). Thankfully, Amazon now was an unlimited cloud storage plan for us.

Shared.com offers 100GB of Free Cloud Space

There's no lack of cloud storage space these days, and newcomers need to offer something important if they hope to attract some users. Most of the time that equates to offering more space than the competition, and this shared.com certainly catches our attention by offering 100GB of free cloud space.


However, this prompted me to consider the following - and keep in mind that this has nothing to do with this particular service, as it applies to any other of its kind. I find it quite horrifying that so many people are willing to trust any and all services with their personal data. As in, I could create a "cloud storage" service that offered 1TB of free space, and just wait for users to begin pouring their data in, potentially gaining access to some sensible information along the way - and closing down the service whenever the objective was fulfilled (without ever having to do good on the "promise" of the free space for all).

Unlike all those hacking attacks that steal user data, this approach would make it even easier for anyone to grab much more data without even have to resort to hacking!

My point is... maybe it would be better if people weren't so trusting to any and every site/service on the web that offers something for free.

That being said, if you do want 100GB of cloud space for your files, do give shared.com a try.

MEGA offers you 50GB of Encrypted Cloud Storage

Kim Dotcom is back - and we could say "with a vengeance"! MegaUpload might be dead, but this MEGA promises to be bigger and better than ever. Exactly 1 year after the US Government destroyed MegaUpload, this MEGA opened its doors to the public, and millions of new users rushed in (straining the system to the point that lots of people were unable to login).

Why should you care? Well, MEGA offers you 50GB of free cloud space, a nice amount to keep a backup of most people's critical data. And although the data is encrypted so no one else can access it (unless you share your keys with them), nothig stops you from encrypting your data yourself - if you want to be sure.

The encryption part is one of MEGA's most touted features, as it means that even if anyone requests your data... they won't be able to make any sense of what you're storing there.

For now, the site offers the basic operations (upload, download, sharing, etc.) but it's expected to expand to mobile and desktop apps in the future, to make it even simpler to use.

And if 50GB aren't enough, you can get a Pro account starting at 500GB for $9.99/month.