what is the best cloud service? Google Drive, Dropbox, Onedrive and Amazon Drive

All storage services (cloud service) offer free space to back up important files, but those who want more storage should use a monthly subscription. To help you make a better choice, here is a comparison of the Google Drive, Dropbox OneDrive and Amazon Drive offers.

The best cloud services

There are several players in the online storage market, but a few services share most of the market share. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Amazon Drive. If you are not sure of your choice, we offer you a comparison of the different storage offers that each of these services offers.

Cloud storage has become an indispensable part of today’s business. Because our traditional hard drives can be damaged overnight or lost in the case of external drives, it is always advisable that you keep your important data in place: memories photos and videos, personal files, or movies and series that you will not stop seeing.

All storage services offer free space to back up important files, but those who want more storage should use a monthly subscription. To help you make a better choice, here is a comparison of the Google Drive, Dropbox OneDrive and Amazon Drive offers.

SERVICE	free service	paid service
Dropbox	2 GB	1 TB – $112/Year
OneDrive	5 GB	1 TB – $95/Year
Google Drive	15 GB	1 TB – $135/Year 30 TB – $4/Year
Amazon Drive	5 GB / UNLIMITED PHOTOS*	UNLIMITED – $79/Year

Google Drive:

So we start with the most famous of all: Google Drive. It is not necessary to create a specific account to store your data in the cloud. A simple Gmail account and you get your master key to access the service, like many others from the Mountain View firm.

The Google disk drive offers you by default a storage amount of 15 GB that is completely free. You can store any type of file, but be careful, the capacity is shared with Gmail (emails and attachments), but also with Google Photos. In case you have configured automatic syncing of your photos, they will help you reduce the margin.

By subscribing to convenient storage, you can set up an automatic backup of your PC data to the cloud using Google’s backup and sync tool. Below are the different Google Drive payment options:

• 100 GB for 2.24 dollars per month
• 1 TB for 11.24 dollars per month
• 10 TB for 112.54 dollars per month
• 20 TB for 225.08 dollars per month
• 30 TB for 337.63 dollars per month

Dropbox:

Dropbox was one of the first services to offer its servers to the general public for online data backup. It remains today one of the best alternatives to the solution of the giant Google. But the storage capacity of the free offer is limited to 2 GB, which is much less than Google’s offer. To get more space, you must subscribe to the paid offer, for which the prices and the corresponding storage space are indicated below:

• Dropbox Plus subscription: 1 TB of storage at $ 11.24 per month
• Dropbox Professional subscription: 2TB at $ 22.50 per month

The dropbox cloud service also offers business offers for companies:

• Standard offer: 3 TB of secure storage at $ 14.07 per month for three people.
• Advanced offer: unlimited and secure storage for three people at $ 22.51 per month.

OneDrive:

If you’re using a Windows 100 PC, you don’t need to download OneDrive, which is offered by default as a cloud sync solution. You can set OneDrive to automatically back up your PC data, but free basic storage is limited to 5GB. Here is the pricing for options to expand capacity with OneDrive:

• OneDrive 50 GB: $ 2.25 per month
• Office 365 Personal: 1Tb + Office 365 and other benefits at $ 77.66 / year
• Office 365 Family: 6TB in total, (1,000 GB per person for 6 users) with Office 365 and other benefits for $ 111.42 per year.

Amazon Drive:

Amazon Drive, formerly Cloud Drive, is less used in Spain as a storage solution than Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. And yet, this service is offered by one of the most influential companies on the web. This is not a coincidence, as Amazon has long focused on its storage and hosting solutions for businesses.

To enjoy the Amazon Drive service, it is not complicated. If you already have an account with the company to make purchases on their e-commerce site, you don’t need anything else. All you have to do is go to this address, log in to access the web interface for managing your Drive account. You can also manage your files and storage space from the Windows, Android or iOS application. For more than 5 GB of storage space, here are the prices and conditions:

• $ 11.99 per year for 100 GB of storage, or $ 1 per GB per year
• $ 59.99 per year for 1TB of storage
• $ 119.99 per year for 2TB of storage.

All Amazon Drive plans can be found at this address. Lastly, keep in mind that Amazon Prime subscribers always benefit from unlimited storage of their photos on Amazon Drive through the Amazon Photos service.