I'm also trying to keep my local backups neatly organized. So, I'm keeping a very close watch on Amazon and hoping they improve enough to be the right solution in the future.Īnyway, the point of this blog post is to say that I'm preparing for an eventual move to another photo cloud service. But they do fall on their face as soon as you start dealing with videos larger than 2GB (easy to do with kids and a modern iPhone shooting 4K video) or over 20 minutes long. And Amazon's website and apps are actually better than Google's in many ways. I'm perfectly willing to pay for what I use, so that's great. (I'm keeping a close eye on PhotoPrism.) They solve the storage pricing problem because they're Amazon and just charge you an extra 1TB at a time as your needs increase. The obvious next and most comparable choice is Amazon Photos. So I've been thinking about my eventual exit strategy. And while I totally get the business reasons behind that pricing, sheesh. That's a hell of a jump for that next byte. When I hit that limit, the next tier is 10TB for $600/year. I'm currently paying Google $99/year for 2TB of storage space. Chief among them is my looming monthly price increase apocalypse. However, I'm always playing the long game and thinking about contingency plans with data this important. But if I lost access to my photo library stored with Google? That would be bad, but not the end of the world since I have all that data backed up. The chance of getting locked out due to an automated flag is too high - even if I am a paying customer. I gave up Gmail years ago because even with full backups of all my messages, my email address itself is the key to nearly every other online account. (Well, short of building my own solution, but that's…uh…not yet.)
I've tried every consumer photo organization tool/website/app on the market, and nothing comes as close to hitting my feature requirements as Google Photos. As I've written about previously, for better or worse, Google Photos is the initial destination of all the family photos and videos we take as well as the source of truth for the albums I sort them into.
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