14 DAY TRIAL // After the biggest week in cloud storage's admittedly short history, Amazon decided to poke its head out and see if it's safe. It didn't come out empty handed though, it's got presents for the people who decided to stick around with its Cloud Drive platform, a couple of desktop apps.
That's not to say Amazon Cloud Drive is becoming a competitor to the likes of Dropbox, Google Drive or Skydrive, the new desktop apps are simply for downloading and uploading files on-demand, but don't have any sync features, automatic or otherwise.
"Using the new Cloud Drive app you can now upload files and folders simply by dragging them to the Cloud Drive icon on your computer," Amazon explained.
"Downloading files is also easier with support for downloading multiple files and folders at once. With our new apps you don't need to stop what you're doing to upload or download large files because we take care of uploading and downloading files in the background for you," it added.
The new apps, available for Windows and Mac, enable users to upload their files to the safety of the cloud, with a simple drag and drop and to download them again safely.
It's not much, but for Cloud Drive users it's a good step forward. Cloud Drive's big advantage, at this point, is price, storage is dirt cheap so it's an enticing backup service.
The new apps work to confirm that, if you have a lot of files that you want to know safe, just whisk them away to the cloud with a couple of clicks. You won't have to worry about spotty internet connections, uploads and downloads resume as your connection is working again, so getting a lot of files to and from the cloud is simple.