Amazon Drive has made a major announcement recently. The service is scheduled to permanently shut down as of December 31, 2023. The cut off date for adding new files to Amazon Drive is even early, i.e. January 31, 2023. You may only be able to view or download your existing files for a limited period. If you have a large number of files in your Amazon Cloud Drive, your best bet is to transfer them to another cloud service such as Dropbox.
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What’s Cloud Computing?
Back in the early days of computing, organizations would set up their own local servers to store massive amounts of data. These centralized servers would make the data accessible to other computers in the same corporate network. Undeniably, it had its own drawbacks. Fire, flood, earthquake and other calamities would result in massive data losses. As the redundant copies of the original data were hosted in the same premises, the backup systems would collapse in no time.
Thankfully, the cloud has changed everything. With the evolution of cloud computing, purchasing, maintaining and upgrading dedicated on-premise servers has become a thing of the past. Organizations only pay for the storage (and sometimes, bandwidth) they consume. No longer do they need to set up a dedicated IT force for on-premise servers. Besides, your cloud storage provider creates redundant backup copies of your data and stores them at different locations across the world with military grade encryption.
Transferring Files from Amazon Cloud Drive to Dropbox
- Go to the CloudHQ website and register for a new account. The quickest way to register is to sign-up with your Google account using the Sign up with Google Account button.
- Head to the Sync & Backup tab.
- Select Amazon CloudDrive as the source drive on the left.
- Click on the Add Amazon Cloud Drive button.
- Sign-in to your Amazon Cloud Drive.
- When you’re prompted to give CloudHQ the permission to access your Amazon Cloud Drive files, click on the Allow button.
- In the next screen, select the option I’d like to sync the entire Amazon Cloud Drive account.
- Click on the Next button.
- In the next screen, select your destination account. In our case, select Dropbox. (You’ll get a long list of options including Google Drive, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Office 365 Sharepoint, Yandex, Box, WebDAV, etc.)
- Click on the Select button.
- Now choose the location where you want to transfer your files. Here are your options: (We recommend selecting the 2nd option).
- If you want to transfer your files to the root folder, select the I’d like to backup (replicate) Amazon Cloud Drive into the root folder of Dropbox account option.
- If you want to create a new folder and transfer your files to that new folder, select I’d like to create a new folder and backup (replicate) data from Amazon Cloud Drive into it option.
- If you want to transfer the files to an existing Dropbox folder, select the I’d like to backup (replicate) Amazon Cloud Drive data into an existing Dropbox folder option.
- After you have selected your preferred option, click on Next.
- Specify a name to create a new folder in your Dropbox account. (For example: Amazon backups).
- Click on Create.
- A confirmation prompt will appear. Click on the OK button.
- Click on Start Sync to proceed transfer.
Bonus Tip: Dedupe your Dropbox Account to Make Room for Amazon Cloud Drive Files
Migrating data from one cloud storage to another is not always easy. It takes time and requires additional space in your other account. Unfortunately, upgrading to a higher plan is not always an economical option for many.
The solution is simple: Register on Cloud Duplicate Finder to delete duplicate files in your Dropbox account and make room for new storage. Thankfully, no files need to be downloaded to your PC.
Cloud Duplicate Finder Features:
- Supports OneDrive, Amazon S3, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
- Uses official APIs to securely access your data.
- Every action is performed over-the-cloud.
- Scan all folders in your Dropbox for duplication, or specific folders of your choice.
- File type filters allow you to decide which file types to scan for duplication (for example, all files, documents, music, images, videos, archives, etc).
- In-house file preview. No files need to be downloaded for previewing purposes.
- Automatic file selection.
- Move duplicates to another folder or delete permanently.
Note: CDF does not support Amazon Cloud Drive.
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