Amazon Drive (discontinued) vs. Dropbox

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

155 Reviews and Ratings

Dropbox

4,201 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Drive (discontinued)	Score5.1 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
Dropbox	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Dropbox is a cloud storage solution, equipped with features that help users to save time, improve productivity, and collaborate with others. Users can edit PDFs, share videos, sign documents, and collaborate with stakeholders without leaving Dropbox.	$9.99 per month

Pricing

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

Dropbox

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

Plus: $9.99
per month
Essentials: $18
per month
Business: $20
per month per user
Business Plus: $26
per month per user
Basic: Free

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	Dropbox
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Kristin Cole Owner in Corporate at Sound Wave Events (Events Services, 11-50 employees) 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? Verified User 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 in Social Media at club cuervos (Internet, 1-10 employees) 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 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? Kaung Htet Kyaw Student in Engineering at Rochester Institute Of Technology (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees) 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? Fareed Abolhassani Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at rit (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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 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? Marcus Young Web Application Developer in Information Technology at Aloompa (Entertainment, 11-50 employees) 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? Jorden Beatty Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at LGD Communications (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) 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? Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) 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? Micah Jones Chief Information Officer in Corporate at Phoenix Ortho (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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? Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager in Sales at Midwest Tungsten Service (Mining & Metals, 11-50 employees) 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 in Product Management at EYEMAR EXPRESS (Airlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees) 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? Miguel Brito Director de Marketing en Festejos Car-Yan. C.A. in Marketing at Festejos Car-Yan. C.A (Events Services, 11-50 employees) 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? James Murphy Senior Web Developer at Web Juice Ltd (Internet, 1-10 employees) 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? Jason Montoya Servant Leader in Customer Service at JasonScottMontoya.com (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) 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?	Dropbox Verified User Chose Dropbox While Amazon Drive is frequently faster, it has less friendly user interfaces that our employees have difficulty understanding. Dropbox has a largely intuitive user interface that employees are able to use effectively. DropBox offered better customer support than AmazonDrive, … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Doherty Manager in Finance and Accounting at LCLLC (Real Estate, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Dropbox is the easiest and most straight forward of the bunch. I tried every similar service but always end up coming back to Dropbox Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Dropbox is easy to access and upload and download data. The data is secure and safe. [Files are put in an] organized manner, folder creation is easy, and [adding] titles, labeling, and tagging are easy. Incentivized Helpful? Chuck Graudins Professional Announcer in Social Media at Chuck Fresh (Broadcast Media, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Dropbox WAS faster, offered more storage, seemed more reliable six years ago. Today, Amazon, Google, OneDrive are outperforming DropBox. We will probably not renew our subscription and switch to one of the other providers. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Brito Dj, Emprendedor y Community Manager en Eventos CAR-YAN in Human Resources at Eventos CAR-YAN (Music, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox I have been lucky that I have liked the programs that I have selected to store my music and other files. Dropbox is a comfortable program for me, because I have access to this software through my cell phone anywhere in the world, it's free and very easy. That is why I have … Incentivized Helpful? Valerie A. Williams CEO in Professional Services at OneHipSista/Design (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox I have free cloud storage accounts for a number of services but dropbox and Google Drive are my go-to's. I use GSuite and Android mobile devices and Drive is heavily integrated, however, all my clients use dropbox. When I start working with new clients, it's the first service I … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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TrustRadius Insights
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	Dropbox
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published April 23, 2020 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.

Features

Amazon Drive (discontinued)

Dropbox

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon Drive (discontinued) and Dropbox
Feature	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.4 24 Ratings	Dropbox 7.8 887 Ratings
Versioning	9.014 Ratings	7.5714 Ratings
Video files	7.021 Ratings	7.8697 Ratings
Audio files	8.019 Ratings	8.0623 Ratings
Document collaboration	9.016 Ratings	7.7780 Ratings
Access control	9.018 Ratings	7.8828 Ratings
File search	8.919 Ratings	7.6855 Ratings
Device sync	8.022 Ratings	8.1814 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Amazon Drive (discontinued) and Dropbox
Feature	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.3 22 Ratings	Dropbox 8.0 848 Ratings
User and role management	8.018 Ratings	7.9778 Ratings
File organization	9.020 Ratings	8.1837 Ratings
Device management	8.017 Ratings	7.9730 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Amazon Drive (discontinued) and Dropbox
Feature	Amazon Drive (discontinued) 8.7 24 Ratings	Dropbox 8.0 836 Ratings
Performance	9.024 Ratings	7.4829 Ratings
Reliability	8.023 Ratings	8.3834 Ratings
Storage Reports	9.016 Ratings	8.2636 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Drive (discontinued)	Dropbox
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (24 ratings)	8.0 (911 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	6.7 (31 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (3 ratings)	7.5 (65 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	6.7 (3 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (1 ratings)	6.0 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (3 ratings)	7.5 (34 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (4 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	6.6 (4 ratings)