

After saving copies of your Amazon Drive files, verify they’re intact.

So what should you do? Whether you’re a current Amazon Drive user, or someone who hasn’t yet set up a robust backup routine, here are some tips for what to do next.

For its part, Amazon’s primary business isn’t consumer file storage, which makes this move surprising but not shocking. The latter isn’t common, but it’s definitely happened before-CrashPlan unexpectedly dumped its consumer plans back in 2017. Storage drives have a finite lifespan, and online storage services can go offline. Having regular backups of your working files to two separate locations can save you some trouble when one location goes down.Īnd you can’t always predict when one device or location will bite the dust. Regardless if you’re an Amazon Drive users or not, though, this news highlights the advantages of following the home backup rule of three.
