Amazon Drive (discontinued) vs. AnyShare

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

AnyShare

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Drive (discontinued)	Score 5.1 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Drive allows users to aggregate all of their digital content, including photos and videos, in one place. The Cloud Drive is build in to Amazon devices. Users have secure access from any computer, or via their free mobile apps. Amazon Drive offers a free 3-month trial, and pricing packages based on what type of storage users seek. For $11.99/yr, users can store unlimited photos plus 5GB of videos and other files. For $59.99/yr, users can upgrade to unlimited everything (photos, videos,…	$1.99 per month
AnyShare	Score 6.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	AnyShare Cloud provides enterprise-grade customers a files cloud and operations management based on managed service. According to the vendor, its Windows’ like experience helps customers achieve efficient document management.	$0

Pricing

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

AnyShare

Editions & Modules

100 GB: $1.99
per month
1 TB: $6.99
per month
2 TB: $11.99
per month
3 TB: $179.97
per year
4 TB: $239.96
per year
5 TB: $299.95
per year
6 TB: $359.94
per year
7 TB: $419.93
per year
8 TB: $479.92
per year
9 TB: $539.91
per year
10 TB: $599.90
per year
20 TB: 1,199.80
per year
30 TB: 1,799.70
per year

AnyShare: $0.00
AnyShare Cloud: $0.00

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Drive (discontinued)	AnyShare
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Required

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	AnyShare
Considered Both Products	Amazon Drive (discontinued) Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Less costly compared to other cloud storage providers available in the market. Amazon Drive gives us [the] option to store and backup data with less or minimal effort from dev side. [Therefore,] we don't need to hire a specific developer for that. As we plan to extend or … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Olsen Digital Marketing Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) OneDrive is a lot more known if you have an Office 365 environment at work. Or at home with things preinstalled. Azure is a huge cloud and Amazon is the only thing that could rival it. Amazon Cloud Drive is a nice way to add another point for redundancy to keep files safe. Incentivized Helpful? Micah Jones Chief Information Officer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Without the "free" photo storage I wouldn't use Amazon Drive. It's really not suited to business use. Incentivized Helpful? KC Kristin Cole Owner Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Other platforms I would compare Amazon Drive to would be Dropbox and Box. Amazon Drive is excellent because the files do not have to live in a collaborative folder that syncs to every device (thus taking up space on each of those devices). Amazon Drive is an "upload and forget" … Incentivized Helpful? Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) We're already inside the Amazon portal so often for sourcing, the cloud storage was an easy extension. It is included in our Prime membership so it was an easy option. Furthermore, the functionality is beyond simple, helping to sell the software internally and gain support … Incentivized Helpful? Arlex Guzman VICEPRESIDENT Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) ACD has lagged behind its competition. I would like to see more space and more features. Its main strength is the Amazon support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) We use Dropbox and Google Drive. Personally, I like Google Drive slightly better because they're cheaper (you can't beat $1.99). They also offer a business option that feels a little more professional. But functionality wise, they compare really similarly and are both … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Brito Director de Marketing en Festejos Car-Yan. C.A. Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Amazon Drive Cloud has the advantage of being backed by one of the companies that has had the highest growth in recent years: Amazon. That gives us security and has been the main reason for us to trust this product. We believe that the security systems of this company are good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Actually I think both Box and Dropbox are easier to use and have better features for sharing files, especially if you need password security on those files, but Amazon is better for storing tons of data. Box and Dropbox are much more expensive to store a lot of files. Incentivized Helpful? antonio lopez Publicidad Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) I do not have any special reason to use Amazon Cloud Drive, except perhaps that it is cheap to increase storage size and maybe also because the video management is much more video-friendly in the Amazon environment than in Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) When compared to other solutions, Amazon is the dominant household name. With that said it is a bit more expensive than the competition. Namely, Google and their entry into the cloud solutions game is being priced very aggressively and in certain cases much cheaper than Amazon. … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Narumiya Director, Data and Information Systems Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) It was a brand that I knew of, and pricing was attractive. Many of our other vendors use Amazon, so that gives us a greater comfort level. Incentivized Helpful? James Murphy Senior Web Developer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) I use this product in conjunction with other products to store information. As a storage solution it performs as expected, it's use as a business application could be open to improvement mainly due to the lack of collaboration, lock off of files, etc. However, its photo storage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Even though Dropbox is great and has syncing capacities, we use Amazon Cloud Drive just because we are on AWS big time. Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Fazalul Rahman Research Assistant Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Amazon Cloud drive stacks up poorly against the other products with less number of options and features while having costlier plans. I would not substitute any of the other products with Amazon Cloud drive as it still has a long way to go when it comes to better features and … Incentivized Helpful? KH Kaung Htet Kyaw Student Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) The well organized version of Amazon Cloud wins over both Google Drive and Dropbox. Better accessibility compared to Google Drive and faster access speed compared to Dropbox. Won over the both of them overall except for the pricing case. Incentivized Helpful? FA Fareed Abolhassani Information Technology Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Honesty.. I would rather choose Dropbox or OneDrive over Amazon Cloud due to no mobile application or file sync. Amazon does not offer folder sharing but does offer file sharing. The only way for me to use amazon cloud drive over others is music. Amazon Cloud Drive is ideal for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) This is about the same as google drive except I don't feel it's as organized or looks as nice as google drive does. It could do a lot more in terms of making it more visually pleasing and make it look more organize. It doesn't stack up to github in the sense that it's not good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) We selected Amazon due to the large reliable brand name behind ACD and the ability of it to be nested within other services. While Microsoft and Google were strong options, we decided that ACD had a better cost and availability uptime compared to other services. Dropbox has … Incentivized Helpful? venkat nitin panaganti Student Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) Since this was used for a class, it was mandatory to use amazon. I have not used any other cloud storage spaces for the same purpose that i have used amazon cloud for, so the comparison might not be valid. The other two services i have used from google and apple are free of … Incentivized Helpful? Marcus Young Web Application Developer Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) The functionality/integration of Amazon Cloud Drive is unbeatable. The syncing/usage/add-ons is no where near some of the others like OneDrive or DropBox. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Montoya Servant Leader Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) The other services have a better computer syncing software, but the unlimited photo and video space for a small annual fee is unsurpassed by the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Jorden Beatty Digital Marketing Manager Chose Amazon Drive (discontinued) If you compare based on functionality and user-friendliness, other services like Google Drive and Dropbox are better options. However, if you are simply looking for somewhere to securely and reliably host your digital files, Amazon Cloud Drive is a great option. Adding to that … Incentivized Helpful?	AnyShare SG Shiwangi Goel Dy. Manager-Marketing & Commercial Chose AnyShare If charges of AnyShare are justifiable for your business then it is one of the best software available. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

AnyShare

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.4 Ratings 0% above category average	AnyShare 7.6 Ratings 10% below category average
Versioning	9.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Video files	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	9.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Access control	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
File search	8.90 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Device sync	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 4% below category average	AnyShare 8.0 Ratings 8% below category average
User and role management	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
File organization	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Device management	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.7 Ratings 1% above category average	AnyShare 8.0 Ratings 8% below category average
Performance	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Reliability	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Storage Reports	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	AnyShare
Small Businesses	SugarSync Score 3.8 out of 10	SugarSync Score 3.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	AnyShare
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	AnyShare
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon Drive can be helpful in a variety of scenarios. It works best as a cloud back up - a place to store files, photos, and videos that are important and need to be safeguarded. I would not recommend it for collaborative document management and feel that there are other platforms better suited for that need. Amazon Drive can be programmed to upload specific folders from your desktop computer automatically. This is very helpful and takes the guesswork out of protecting your documents. Incentivized KC Kristin Cole Owner Read full review	Apps/software like AnyShare helps big organizations to meet their goal of centralized data storage/management/ease accessibility. Small organizations/ groups who can not afford its cost can try other cheaper/free options available in the market. Incentivized SG Shiwangi Goel Dy. Manager-Marketing & Commercial Read full review
Pros	Worldwide accessibility, including from China's great firewall. Highly flexible with different server options: Aurora, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Lengthy free trial lets you really dive deeply and explore the solutions offering and all that Amazon has to provide you with. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Data storage, management and access from anywhere greatly help in optimizing the operations. Uploaded files can be edited/ commented with ease which greatly helps in teamwork/ feedback. Old archived data can be searched / accessed with ease. Incentivized SG Shiwangi Goel Dy. Manager-Marketing & Commercial Read full review
Cons	Less storage than Google Drive, Google offers 15GB of free space - vs. Amazon's 5GB. Also, unlike with Google Drive, you can't back up your work with Amazon Drive ( I also use Google Drive, since I have a Gmail account). A lot more expensive than Google Drive, which is 1.99/month...but they are more in line with Dropbox pricing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sometimes retrieving documents lags a bit. Cost can be looked into to attract more users. Incentivized SG Shiwangi Goel Dy. Manager-Marketing & Commercial Read full review
Usability	The system is very easy to use and it's use of apps for almost all devices and hardware makes it even easier to manage and store photos and documents. I highly recommend this as an easy to use solution for novices! Incentivized James Murphy Senior Web Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	It is safe but has little added value. Incentivized Arlex Guzman VICEPRESIDENT Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Overall great software to use for file share, storage, and collaboration. Its security is great and the user management is spot on. The only thing that makes me dock it a point is that the device management as a subset of user management is kind of clunky. It hasn't been an issue yet, but it could compromise security in the future. Overall, would recommend Incentivized Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	If you compare based on functionality and user-friendliness, other services like Google Drive and Dropbox are better options. However, if you are simply looking for somewhere to securely and reliably host your digital files, Amazon Cloud Drive is a great option. Adding to that the fact that Amazon Cloud Drive is far more cost effective over time and comes with Amazon's well-known reliability and professional support, you'll find you have all the reasons you need to select it as your go-to for cloud storage. Incentivized Jorden Beatty Digital Marketing Manager Read full review	If charges of AnyShare are justifiable for your business then it is one of the best software available. Incentivized SG Shiwangi Goel Dy. Manager-Marketing & Commercial Read full review
Return on Investment	Being free, everything ACD gives is profit. In this service, I have saved files for years and I find the storage very complete and secure. I think it is possible to earn even more if other services are included in the cloud, such as Microsoft Office 360 does it with OneDrive. Incentivized Arlex Guzman VICEPRESIDENT Read full review	This software greatly help in effective data storage/management. Its features help in efficient team work thus improving output. Incentivized SG Shiwangi Goel Dy. Manager-Marketing & Commercial Read full review
ScreenShots		AnyShare Screenshots