{"id":214774,"date":"2017-06-09T08:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=214774"},"modified":"2017-06-09T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:36:02","slug":"amazon-ends-unlimited-storage-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/214774-amazon-ends-unlimited-storage-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon ends unlimited storage deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unlimited cloud storage deal in Amazon Drive is no more,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/6\/8\/15761306\/amazon-data-storage-unlimited-cloud-over\">The Verge reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon used to allow unlimited storage for $60 per year, or $12 per year for\u00a0a photos-only plan.<\/p>\n<p>It has restructured its offering to only have two tiers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>100GB for $11.99 per year<\/li>\n<li>1TB for $60 per year<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can then buy additional space for $60 per terabyte per year, with a limit of 30TB.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are effective immediately,\u00a0but those on the unlimited plan will keep it until their year expires.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited photo storage is still available as part of an Amazon Prime subscription, and if you sign up for Amazon Drive you get 5GB of storage space for free.<\/p>\n<p>Users\u00a0will have 180 days to download their data &#8211; Amazon then begins deleting files, starting with the latest files uploaded, until their account falls within the new limits.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/214042-amazon-prime-video-coming-to-apple-tv.html\">Amazon Prime Video coming to Apple TV<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unlimited cloud storage deal in Amazon Drive is no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[723,43820],"class_list":["post-214774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214776,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214774\/revisions\/214776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}