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Chapter 2
Accessing Amazon’s Cloud Services
Prime All the Time
At the end of your free trial, Amazon automatically bills you for $79 to extend
your Prime membership for a full year. If you decide that you don’t want to keep
Prime, go to the Amazon.com site, select Your Account, and then select Do Not
Upgrade sometime before the end of your 30-day trial.
Amazon Cloud Drive
Your computer has a hard drive in it where you can store your stuff. When
you’re sitting at your computer, that stuff is easy to access, but what about
when you’re not at your computer? The cloud is like having a hard drive avail-
able from anywhere you have Internet access.
Amazon provides 5GB of free storage that you can use for photos, personal
documents, or anything else you want to store in the cloud. This space is in
addition to the unlimited cloud storage Amazon provides for books, music,
and videos you purchase directly from Amazon. If you need additional stor-
age, Amazon offers plans from 20GB for $10 a year to 1,000GB for $500 a year.
As a frame of reference, a typical HD movie is approximately 2GB (2,000MB).
A single song is 3MB to 6MB, and a complete album is around 50MB. A high-
quality photo is about 2MB to 3MB. As you see, if you start putting all these
items onto your cloud storage, it can fill up quickly.
WHY WOULD YOU NEED MORE SPACE?
You can use your Amazon Cloud Drive for more than just making your files
accessible to your Kindle Fire. Your Cloud Drive can serve as a backup for
important files in case your computer crashes. You can also use it to access
your files from any other computer with Internet access simply by logging
in to your Amazon account.
>>>Go Further
Content you purchase on Amazon is automatically accessible from your
Amazon Cloud account and, thus, from your Kindle Fire. But to access your
personal photos and documents, you must upload them to your Cloud Drive.
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