The Top 5 Best Cloud Services for Backing Up your Photos
Gary Detonnancourt
Cons:
Must be a Prime Member
5 GB of Video Storage
Additional video storage starts at $1.99/mo
If you end your Prime membership your storage is reduced to 5 GB for photos and videos.
Pros:
Unlimited photo storage
Accept uncompressed files including raw files
Secure off-site backup for all of your devices
Free Shipping when you order prints
Allows you to use your photos as a slideshow on
Echo Show or Fire TV
Allows for photo sharing in private
groups
Nice widget creates videos and
thumbnails so you can revisit past memories
Advanced search and filters to help
find photos
Auto-Save makes sure your photos are
always backed up from all of your devices.
24/7 Customer Support
2. SmugMug:
Pros:
Unlimited full resolution photo storage including raw files
Great for portfolios & websites
Advanced Search
Easy to upload and access photos
and videos
Connect a photo lab to your site for
print sales
Custom Photo sharing and Privacy
Auto-upload
Sell your images with sales tools
Human support
14 Day Free Trial
Cons:
$5-$42 per month
If you plan to sell prints, you can’t designate yourself as the printer
3. IDrive:
Cons:
They draw you in with an inexpensive price for the first year, then it goes up.
$80-$150 a year
Technically more complex than the other solutions on this list.
Pros:
Multiple Device Backup
Online File Sync
Backup and retrieve data in less
then a week via physical storage
shipment
Snapshot & Versioning of your
backup
Web-based console to manage
backup
Incremental and compressed
backups will ease network
bandwidth by transferring the
modified portions of a file.
IDrive automatically recognizes
the modified parts of files and
backs them up.
Access files backed up from PCs
and Macs or synced from connected
devices; protect mobile data with
apps for iOS and Android.
Search and restore files from the
a desktop application or via any browser;
provision to recover deleted files
from Trash within a period of 30 days.
No data is deleted from the IDrive
online account until you manually
delete or run 'Archive Cleanup' to
match your computer data to your account.
Activity reports, backup status reports,
share reports - all keep you informed.
4. Flickr:
Cons:
You can’t upload raw files
The interface is outdated
Its future is questionable
Pros:
There is a free version
Flickr Pro is just $5 a month
Advanced Statistics
Ad-free browsing
Automatic Photo Uploads
Unlimited uncompressed images
for Pro members.
Cons:
Google compresses your phones and videos.
You have to pay for Google Drive to get uncompressed file storage
Pros:
Securely backup photos and videos
Auto-backup
Access on almost any device
Photos & videos are auto-organized and
searchable.
Editing tool & smart filters
Printing services
Free for compressed files
Of course, there are other great clouds services out there like Adobe Creative Cloud and 500px, so please post in the comments below what your favorite is and why you like it. Also, stay tuned, for a future post where I will show you how I use Amazon Photos as part of my mobile editing workflow.