Amazon Associates is to expand their world of Cloud Computing services by granting users to access their cloud storage service, Amazon Cloud Drive from their Personal Computer. Amazon Cloud Drive is the online cloud storage service which offers Free Storage Space of 5 GB and upgrades upto 1 Terabyte storage space by paying $1000 per year. The firm also offers complete security for your files and also says that you will not again lose it.

And so Amazon has stepped up to the world of cloud computing by introducing such a cloud storage service to users. The launch of such desktop client for their cloud storage is essential for their existence and competition with other giants including Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft SkyDrive. As Google Drive does, Amazon Cloud Drive is also providing 5 GB Of file storage but Google Drive is still just an update to Google Docs, and so Amazon is more capable for providing more features and acquiring more users to go ahead. For example, as being an Associate, Amazon has integrated their MP3 Store with this cloud services and when you purchase something from Amazon MP3 Store, it can be added to your cloud powered storage space.

Let us have look on Amazon’s Desktop Application for Amazon Cloud Drive. It is a simple msi file that can be downloaded from following link. Amazon has officially given a list of new features included in this Desktop Client. You can read it as follows

Quickly Access Amazon Cloud Drive From Your Computer

• Easily upload your photos, documents, videos and other files
• Drag and drop files and folders to the Cloud Drive icon in your Amazon Cloud Storage
• Right-click any file or folder and send to Amazon Cloud Drive
• Easy download of one or more files and folders from Cloud Drive
• Uploads and downloads run in the background
• Continue using your computer as you normally would, the app can handle restarts and lost internet connections without losing your data
• You can pause and resume at any time

Download Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App for Mac And PC

  The Desktop App support OS’s including Windows Vista/7, Macintosh 10.6 /10.7. So you can now start using Amazon Cloud Drive Service from your Mac or Windows Powered Computer and get started with cloud computing if you haven’t done so, And Amazon is giving a free cloud storage of 5 Gigabytes.

Conclusion:Though I still personally prefer DropBox over any other  cloud storage device that were recently launched including Google Drive,Miscrosoft’s Skydrive and now this Amazon Cloud Drive.But if we think on it we are getting around 19 GB of free online storage {5-5 each of Google Drive,Amazon Cloud Drvie,7 GB of MS Skydrive and 2 GB of Dropbox} and to add that I have found an another Cloud storage device service company which is giving away 25Gb of cloud storage just to signup up