It gives you few options, is far less flexible and though a monthly fee of £9.99 seems low (especially compared with £199 to buy your own NAS) after using this service for a year or two, you are throwing money away and still need somewhere for your data to go if you ever choose to abandon your Amazon Drive account. 3RD Party Cloud providers are a valuable service and indeed, using them as means to backup your NAS as a secondary backup (Synology, QNAP, Asustor etc all support 3rd party cloud migration), but as a primary means of cloud storage, I think Amazon Drive is a short-term answer. If you are on a shoe-string budget and are looking for fast, cheap short term cloud storage, then Amazon Drive is a good choice. I still genuinely believe that NAS is much, much better value for money and gives you everything that a cloud service like Amazon Drive does, for far, far less money in the long run – but that is the point, the ‘long run’. When it comes down to it, you need to choose which cloud option gives you the services you need. That user can share files (send links etc) but ultimately there is one user who can access the Amazon Drive account and typically you can only synchronize 1 PC and 1-2 Mobile devices to an account. Whereas most cloud services like Amazon Drive only give you ONE login and support only 1 user. per users – just set it up and practically unlimited users. From that point on you can access the NAS via the network/internet/mobile/anywhere in the world with just your login and password! What gives NAS an advantage over Amazon Drive, is that NAS features 2 step verification, unique AES-256bit encryption both locally and over the internet and (most importantly of all) a NAS can be access by HUNDREDS of users, each with their own login credentials, quota of storage space, completely controllable file access privileges and at NO ADDITIONAL COST. Internet access is kept safe and secure with a combination of their own NAS domain support and simply requires you to create a free account and to link your NAS with that account for the first time.
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