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Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Re: Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Post by dangero »

sorbus wrote: post #14
dangero wrote: post #5

This article is kind of backwards to me. Dropbox has an API, and Amazon didn't release one with their Cloud Drive. It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology. Syncing isn't that valuable to me as a technology. Dropbox didn't invent it. They borrowed it from elsewhere and Amazon could do the same if they wanted to.

> It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology. Dropbox buys their storage from Amazon, using S3.

Doh! I did not know that.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Post by strickjb9 »

Is this typical of cloud storage? I read through their ToS and found that they retain the right to access your files.

5.2.Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Post by kin »

u48998 wrote: post #20
vidar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't want to make the music industry mad is my guess, same for video and movies.

Well, what would Amazon be doing with their 5 gig free? People will be uploading their files, are they going to check if they're all legit? Dropbox could provide audio player for private files.

According to the terms, Amazon's only allowing DRM free music. Also, Dropbox has got https://droptun.es/login

Although I think the real comparison is between Amazon and bigger players like iTunes and Google Drive.

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Post by alexg0 »

The version 2 of dropbox he refers to already exists, it's called JungleDisk. It works on bring your own storage (S3 and now few others), and you get to keep your own crypto key. It added sync while back.

Been using it for few years, since I was not that comfortable put all my files in the cloud.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Post by khafra »

strickjb9 wrote: post #23

Is this typical of cloud storage? I read through their ToS and found that they retain the right to access your files. 5.2.Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and…

Tarsnap doesn't do that, but other cloud storage providers seem to--like, say, Dropbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3vyon6umixkxu02/Dropbox%20Terms%20o...

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Post by pero »

bcrawford wrote: post #22
narkee wrote: post #2

>It’s going to do something better: release an API and become a platform. Isn't that what Amazon S3 already is?

Yes it is. Amazon beta tested it for years in the enterprise and is now releasing it as a consumer service.

Beta test in enterprise? I don't think that's how it works...

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Post by famfamfam »

phlux wrote: post #12

I would like to see a hybrid between DropBox/Cloud Drive and AWS. I would like a /sites/ folder into which I can drop webpages and have them autohosted. It has the following structure: /Sites/ -->/root/ -->/site1/ -->/site2/ -->/siteN/ Putting sites in /sites/ are actually hosted on AWS so that traffic surges can be accounted for. etc...

Now that Amazon S3 provides Website Endpoints and index documents [1][2], it is probably fairly trivial to set this up either using an S3 sync tool, or an S3 mount such as ExpanDrive, without resorting to CloudDrive or EC2.

You would need to set-up CNAMES for your subdomains though, and it will not work with the primary (non-www.) domain.

[1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Websit...

[2] http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-...

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Post by [deleted] »

redstripe wrote: post #15
trotsky wrote: post #4

I wouldn’t be surprised if a version of Dropbox that plays nicely with the Cloud Drive is one of the first Cloud Drive apps on the scene. It makes a great deal of sense. Instead of paying Dropbox for storage and syncing, we could just pay them for syncing. It seems rather unlikely to me that people would pay dropbox for their syncing service to store things on someone else's paid storage. I would think that the dropb…

I agree, that's something that https://www.jungledisk.com/ already does and frankly I just prefer dealing with one entity because the experience is better.

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Re: Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

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Post by podperson »

Um: DropBox has an API. DropBox does version control. DropBox syncs.

Cloud Drive has no API yet. Doesn't do version control. Doesn't sync. (But it is half as much per GB as DropBox.) Oh and it has a half-assed media player.

The problem is that unless you give us 50GB+ for free, the space difference and cost difference are pretty much irrelevant.

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