amazon-cloud-drive-vs-dropbox

Dropbox provides robust features and collaboration tools. It’s great for organizations that store sensitive data or want to work in the cloud. Amazon Drive offers flexible pricing and unlimited storage for photos, making it ideal for organizations that mainly store photos, or don’t need the advanced features offered by Dropbox.

Features

Dropbox and Amazon Drive both offer the basic features for cloud storage solutions, but there are also some standout features for each one. Dropbox includes collaboration tools for stored files, version history for stored files, and many software integrations. Amazon Drive includes unlimited photo storage, flexible pricing plans, including a free option, and fast upload speed.

Limitations

Dropbox and Amazon Drive both have distinct strengths, but they also have some key limitations. Dropbox’s limitations include no free option for businesses, no 24/7 Phone support, and slow upload speed. Amazon Drive’s weaknesses include that files can’t be edited in the cloud, no file version history, and no file encryption.

Pricing

Dropbox has three plans for businesses: the standard plan includes 5TB of storage for $12.50 per month per user, the advanced plan offers unlimited storage for $20.00 per month per user, and the enterprise plan is priced depending on the size of the organization.

Amazon Drive has a free plan which includes 5GB of storage. They also offer 13 other plans that provide unlimited photo storage and 100GB to 30TB of general storage starting at $19.99/year. Amazon Drive uses a single master account for all plans.