Amazon Drive vs pCloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Cloud Drive is a fantastic backup solution for storing your digital files on the web, but if you want to manage, tweak, organize or otherwise maintain those files after they have reached the cloud, the experience immediately begins to suffer. This is especially noted when major competitor products like Microsoft and Dropbox offer similar services at similar prices, but offer far better interfaces for file management.

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Jorden Beatty

Digital Marketing Manager

LGD CommunicationsMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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pCloud is quite suitable for most users. It does a lot well, such as file storage, being multi-platform, and decent user experience with folder organizing and moving files around.
Where it isn't at apt would be in workspaces to manage documents like Google Drive, and even dropbox would provide. The ability to manage google docs, sheets, etc. would be a significant plus.
The ability to use a workflow to store file shortcuts (don't like their star system quite as much)

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Drive

pCloud

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

Amazon Drive

pCloud

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Amazon Drive

pCloud

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

Amazon Drive automatically detects photos and videos in specific folders (that you choose). It will add them to Drive without any action from me.
There is a desktop app where you can access all of your files (in addition to web-based access).

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Kristin Cole

Owner

Sound Wave EventsEvents Services, 11-50 employees

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Syncs really fast....both upload and download
Is reliable....decent uptime and quite stable

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Packaging and Containers Company, 51-200 employees

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Offline folders (a normal sync rather than a separate folder would do)
Backups (ability to keep them longer and not be upsold for it)

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Amazon Drive 6.0

Based on 3 answers

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!

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James Murphy

Senior Web Developer

Web Juice LtdInternet, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Performance

Amazon Drive 6.0

Based on 1 answer

It is safe but has little added value.

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Arlex Guzman

VICEPRESIDENT

EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Amazon Drive 9.7

Based on 6 answers

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

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Blake Baron

Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager

Midwest Tungsten ServiceMining & Metals, 11-50 employees

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pCloud 6.0

Based on 1 answer

I'm quite as impressed with it, although their faqs cover most current and pending issues. They take around 48 hours to respond to inquiries, while platforms like Gsuite have an instant agent and multiple contact options.
They do attend to you, and I do understand they're trying to keep a lean team and reduce operational costs. For a frequent user who uses cloud storage for multiple things such as website databases, etc. and has clients, it could be a tad frustrating.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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 enough to be quiet while our files are stored on their servers

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Miguel Brito

Director de Marketing en Festejos Car-Yan. C.A.

Festejos Car-Yan. C.AEvents Services, 11-50 employees

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pCloud makes the storage and retrieval process quite easy. With Google Drive, sure you can store lots of items, but the Linux functionality just wasn't there.
The same was the case with OneDrive, which I still use. However, it can be buggy and taxing on computer systems.
pClould is quite simple to use, flexible, and quite effective at what it does. And it's conveniently priced too.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

It slowed us down at first since we went from purely agile to document based then agile.
It is easy to use so even non-developers can access code snippets which they wouldn't know how to access on github.
It has a lot of features we don't have a use for in our business.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Less stress (since I can switch computers and not be limited by hard drive space yet having access to what I need.
Integrating Linux into our workflow (they take the cake there, and that makes life so much easier.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon Drive Editions & Modules

Edition

100 GB	1.99¹
1 TB	6.99¹
2 TB	11.99¹
3 TB	179.97²
4 TB	239.96²
5 TB	299.95²
6 TB	359.94²
7 TB	419.93²
8 TB	479.92²
9 TB	539.91²
10 TB	599.90²
20 TB	1,199.80²
30 TB	1,799.70²

per month
per year

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

pCloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium 500 GB	3.99 /mo¹
Premium Plus 2 TB	7.99 /mo¹
Premium 500 GB Lifetime	$175²
Premium Plus 2 TB Lifetime	$350²

per installation
One-time payment

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

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pCloud

Cons

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pCloud

Usability

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Performance

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Support Rating

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Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Amazon Drive Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

pCloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

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