Amazon Drive
Amazon offered unlimited personal cloud storage, retreated to photos and finally gave customers seventeen months to remove every other file.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released consumer cloud-storage and synchronisation service operated by Amazon.
Customers uploaded documents, media and folders through web, desktop and mobile applications.
Existence timeline
Amazon opens consumer file storage.
Customers can buy broad cloud capacity.
Amazon returns to tiered plans.
The company directs customers toward Amazon Photos.
Users can download but no longer add files.
Non-photo cloud storage disappears.
Why it ended
Amazon stopped uploads in January 2023 and ended access to Drive files on 31 December 2023 while retaining Amazon Photos.
Last confirmed trace
Downloaded user archives, help notices, application packages and Amazon Photos migrations preserve parts of the service.
What it left behind
Its closure separated Amazon's successful photo benefit from a broader Dropbox-style storage product.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.