Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
If you&#x27;re cynical you&#x27;d think &quot;of course they&#x27;d offer a free version and then make you pay for it.&quot; But that&#x27;s basically the cloud storage market in a nutshell. All the cloud storage providers are in a race to the bottom, and once they have your data they want to upsell you on other cloud technologies. If you just need to store data, that&#x27;s actually great news, because these providers are working hard on the optimizations that make it possible to give you storage as cheap as they can.<p>Cheap options are Glacier at $0.004&#x2F;GB, Backblaze at $0.005&#x2F;GB, GCS Coldline at $0.007&#x2F;GB. That&#x27;s the monthly cost for bare cloud storage with no egress. Anything cheaper than about $50&#x2F;year for 1TB will fall in one of two categories:<p>1. Subsidized by the provider, but probably not for long. This has happened so many times I can&#x27;t even remember them all, Amazon is just the most recent.<p>2. Strictly DIY, probably with a much higher chance of data loss than you realize.