Amazon Drive closes its doors in 2023, company to 'fully focus' on Amazon Photos

• Amazon Drive is set to close on December 31, 2023.
• Amazon Photos should automatically save images and videos from Drive, leaving your files behind.
• January 31, 2023, will be the end of uploading to Amazon Drive, but the company will give you until December 31 to download and view any remaining files.

The Drive cloud storage service will be shutting down in 2023, according to an email from Amazon.

The alert informs users that the service will be closing. Users of Amazon Drive can back up their files in the same way that they can back up their bookmarks on the internet. The service is free for uploading files and can be accessed via the web, mobile phones, and tablets.

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The company wants to focus more on photos and video with Amazon Photos.

Users can get a better understanding of what's happening on the FAQ page. The Drive cloud service app will be removed from the app stores on December 31, 2020. You won't be able to uploads files to the Amazon Drive website before January 31, 2020.

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As an Amazon customer, your photos and videos in Amazon Drive have been saved to Amazon Photos. The official closing of Amazon Drive will take place on December 31, 2023. The FAQ page has step-by-step instructions for grabbing items from Amazon Drive and cancelling your subscription. If you're having trouble getting your files downloaded due to size limitations, we recommend using the Amazon Photos Desktop app.

There is one less option out there because of the closing of Amazon Drive. Users have plenty of time to prepare before they lose access to the service.