I collect a lot of travel photos. In fact, I’ve taken over 60,000 photos in the last 3 years! I have a solid system for backing up my travel photos already, and I wanted to expand on how useful Amazon Prime Photos can be for you! Amazon Prime Photos is available on your existing Amazon Prime membership. It provides web, desktop and mobile access to all of your photos. With your Prime membership, you get unlimited photo storage and 5GB of video storage. If you don’t have Amazon Fashion Prime, sign up for free. When you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you'll get Prime Photos automatically. With Prime Photos, you'll be able to kick-start your photo backup system! How does Amazon Prime Photos work? There are three main plans that you can choose from. 1. Free with Prime. Like I mentioned above, you’ll be able to store all of your photos, for free! 2. 100GB of storage for $1.99/month. This wouldn’t work for me. Artic le has been c reated by G SA Conte nt Generator Demover si on.
My photo catalog is pushing a few TB and I would fill up 100GB in a weekend. 3. 1TB of storage for $6.99/month. I would consider this as an option if I didn’t already have another cloud storage plan. This will be good for most people, as you can store a good number of photos with this plan. When you subscribe to Prime photos (through Amazon Prime), you’re able to access your files through a mobile app, a web app and a desktop app. Aside from being able to back up your photos, you can also use Amazon Photos to search for common things within your photos like food, dogs or trees. It can recognize people, too! Aside from the storage plans, let’s go a little deeper on how you can use Amazon Prime photos today. But first, let’s briefly talk about backing up your photos in general. Photo backups are an important part of your workflow if you want to keep your photos safe.
I (and most of the internet) will recommend backing up your photos in at least two additional places. It’s a good idea to have a copy of your photo library on your local hard drive, to have a backup on an external hard drive and to have a backup somewhere in the cloud. Now that we’ve covered backing up your photos, let’s review how to back up your photos using Amazon Prime Photos. Log in to Amazon photos if you haven’t already. Upload Photos in the top navigation bar. As an alternative to the web client, you can use the desktop app as well. I do all of my photo work on a Mac, so I don’t have any experience working with the Windows version. An older version of this app wasn’t very good and limited uploads to four at a time. Uploading RAW files took forever (it almost took a month when I first started uploading!) because it could only process four large files at once.
The updated app is decent and Sales now supports eight concurrent uploads! After a shoot, I’ll queue up an upload. I find that keeping my uploads small, it’s manageable for the app to handle. You can set up the app to schedule backups or do a one-time backup. I prefer doing a one-time backup because I constantly move files around, as my local hard drive fills up quickly. While the mobile app exists on iPhone and Android, I don’t use it. I use Amazon Prime Photos as a backup and not as a place to view my photos. I’ve had a hard drive fail before and I’m glad that I had my photo files backed up. Without that backup, I would have lost a few years worth of work. When you use Prime Photos, you can ensure that your photos are safe! As an added benefit, you’re able to browse photos on your phone and computer and share with friends and family.
You’re also able to order prints. In addition to the features of the platform, it’s free! Well, kind of. If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you get Amazon Prime Photos for free. There’s no additional cost to you. You can upgrade your plan if you want to increase your video storage. Once per year, Amazon has Amazon Prime Day which has some of the best deals all year around. Check out our guide where we handpick some of our favorite Amazon Prime Day deals for travelers. Amazon photos will stop supporting Amazon Drive starting on December 31, 2023. This doesn’t mean your photos will disappear. This means that your photos will be accessible via Amazon Photos and your folders will be flattened. You can check out all of the details on their FAQ page. When new image formats come out, sometimes Amazon doesn’t recognize them as "images." Because of this, it counts towards your storage cap of other files. I had this happen to me when I was testing a new camera that had a brand new RAW file type.