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Amazon Photos vs. Google Photos: A Comparison of Cloud Photo-Sharing Apps

While one boasts additional features and unlimited space, the other offers free access and cheaper storage. So, to settle the debate of the best cloud storage option for you once and for all, we’ve drawn a comparison of Amazon Photos vs. Google Photos below.

Storage has come a long way since the early days of a computer, where you could do wonders with only a 256MBs storage option!

Since the role of multimedia is exaggerated with each passing day, so is the requirement for larger storage options. All in all, we’ve run out of space to fit media on disk, which is why you see many cloud storage options come into play today.

And why not?

The average photo and video size have skyrocketed from what it used to be, and you can’t stop taking photos with exceptional smartphone cameras either. And to accommodate this data for easy use, we have Amazon Photos and Google Photos as the two leading cloud storage platforms today.

Major Differences Between Amazon Photos and Google Photos

Though there are more cloud storage options such as Flickr, Smugmug, and 500PX, Amazon Photos or Google Photos remain a top favorite as many people already have Google or Amazon Prime accounts. And these two services may seem similar, but quite a bit differentiates them. So, let’s find out how well they hold against each other!

Features:

Customization and editing of photos are a fiery trend today. And so, you expect a few basic features from any photo storage app (Gallery) you use.

Google Photos is more of an offshoot of Google’s bigger cloud storage, Google One, and Google Workspace. Though you get a separate and private gallery for Google Photos, it still uses the overall space of your Google Cloud.

But Google Photos has apps for smartphones, tablets, and PCs, which makes it an independent service. Coming over to the specific features, Google Photos allows you to cut, crop, and share photos. However, its highlight feature remains to be how it organizes your library.

Once you place a tag of a person, place, or scenery in Google Photos, it will automatically organize any new photos saved in their respective folder. And isn’t that just convenient?

Viewing the competitor, Amazon Photos offers similar features in editing and customization. It also features tagging photos to organize your library, bringing the two at par here. But this is also where Amazon takes the lead by featuring a messenger.

You connect to your peers over the Amazon cloud and get likes and comments for your photos. This makes connecting to your peers easy while staying within the privacy of your library.

If you’re tired of endlessly scrolling through your gallery to find just the picture you’ve been looking for, opting for either of the above storage options will make life a lot easier. Though there aren’t any significant differences to be settled for features, Amazon Photos takes the lead for the first round for an additional feature.

Performance:

The Amazon Cloud vs. Google Photos fight for the best cloud storage option can be somehow settled by their performance. If you’re risking putting your entire gallery online, you’d like to know how quickly and easily you can access it.

Regarding base performance, both platforms give each other a run for their money. They both feature nearly similar upload and backing speeds, with Amazon at a slight advantage. Also, both cloud storages have available apps and can be accessed everywhere.

However, since Google Photos is missing the Messenger feature, it has a comparatively cleaner interface. Another thing you need to consider is the interruptions when you’re using cloud storage. Since Amazon is originally a seller, it urges you to order frames and print pictures from time to time. Though it would not have counted as a demerit if it backed the quality, it doesn’t!

Image quality is another keen aspect that distinguishes both cloud storage options. As mentioned above already, smartphone cameras are evolving at an incredible rate. And to make sure you get what you paid for, you need your photos and images in their highest quality. Sadly, this is a feature that’s missing from Google Photos.

Though you can upload a humongous number of photos to Google Cloud, you can’t keep the original quality of the photos. On the contrary, Amazon allows you to store images of higher qualities and sizes. This is a huge pivoting factor for individuals and companies that rely on high graphics quality.

As Amazon Photos and Google Photos, both are reliable platforms, Amazon leads the race for performance by allowing you to do a little more!

Support:

A huge bifactor of choosing an online cloud storage option is the support it offers. There are a million things that can go wrong. And without the right way to deal with the problem, even the littlest of problems can set you off.

Google Photos offers amazing support in the shape of the Google community. This is a place where you can consult thousands of other users for your problem. And chances are, they have! That’s how you get an easy fix quickly for just about everything. You can access the Google community either from the app or the web.

Another support feature that is similar for both platforms is consulting the web. You can type in your query and have relevant fixes appear before you in an instant. You can search the community and support library or use a third-party recommendation.

Amazon Photos offers live support to counter the Google Community feature of Google Photos. You can access the option from either the app or the web, where you can communicate your problem to a live professional via email or phone. And Amazon has done a pretty decent job at diverting traffic from this feature.

As an overview, it may seem like Amazon Photos takes it a step further ahead. But in reality, it really is a matter of preference. Keeping in view that both platforms are highly optimized and perfectly developed, you don’t encounter many crashes in the first place. But when you do, it is always to have some live and quick assistance at hand.

While this a hard one, we’ll call it a tie, as Google Community can be equally helpful as live support. Because, at times, waiting on an email or an operator to pick up can be aggravating as well!

Price and Storage:

No matter how much you skim and scan through the features, storage and pricing are what it always comes down to. While both the cloud storage options offer free space to its users, Amazon lags behind by offering only 5 GB of free space.

Comparing that Google Photo’s unlimited storage option brings a huge difference. Though Google recently announced limiting its free storage space to 15 GBs, it’s still far ahead of the 5 GBs offered by Amazon Cloud storage.

However, the differences start to shrink as the price comes into play.

If you’re an Amazon Prime user, you get unlimited storage, which is a blessing indeed. But Amazon Prime’s subscription does not come free either. So, subscribing to Amazon Prime brings several entertainment features along with unlimited storage.

Still, some companies and individuals have little use for entertainment and high regard for storage space. And that’s where Google Photos offers a cheaper alternative. Well, not much cheaper anyway!

Once you exceed the 15 GB of storage on Google Photos, you’ll need to subscribe to either their monthly or annual plans. I’ve drawn a precise comparison of the subscription prices for both platforms below to give you an accurate idea.

1. Annual Subscription:

Amazon PhotosGoogle Photos
100 GB / $19.99100 GB / $19.99
1 TB / $59.99200 GB / $29.99
2 TB / $119.982 TB / $99.99

2. Monthly Subscription:

Amazon PhotosGoogle Photos
100 GB / $1.66100 GB / $1.99
1 Tb / $6.99200 GB / $2.99
2 Tb / $11.992 TB / $9.99

From the looks of it, Google Photos clearly lead with shining colors by offering more Gigabits per dollar.

Tip: If you’re storing large amounts of data, try looking into hard drives and solid state drives as they prove much cheaper!

Tagging and Sharing Features:

Social, tagging, and sharing features are really an extension of the cloud storage options today. Even though they do not offer a broad stream of content and high-quality filters like Instagram, sharing photos with your friends and family privately is a step ahead of our traditional galleries.

Google Photos allow you to tag photos with people, pets, places, and buildings. And as hinted about earlier, it automatically sorts any new pictures with similar features. This means you’ll have pictures of your friends, pet, home, school, or office categorized the moment you take them.

Coming over to the social features, both services let you share photos or videos directly to mainstream social media. But if you want some more privacy for your photos while sharing, you can also generate a unique URL to share with peers.

Amazon photos catch up with Google by featuring a similar tagging option. However, you’ll have to tag a few photos before you let the AI take the steering wheel. Moreover, you get a “Family Vault” with a Prime membership that is only accessible by your active accounts. But in the “Groups” folder, you can expand your circle to other Amazon Photos members.

Both services do a remarkable job of notifying you about anniversaries and get-togethers. All the more reason for you to keep up with your friends and family!

Despite a close tie, we’ve got to hand it to Google as its AI recognition of new photos and organization of tags is slightly more accurate than that of Amazon’s.

Verdict:

Since Amazon Photos is a dedicated service to multimedia, it is hands-down the winner for today. But that is only if you’re an Amazon Prime member already. Otherwise, Google Photos offer more vast and cheaper services.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to your preference. You may be fascinated by Amazon Photo’s Messenger feature, but it’s hardly of any use if you haven’t got many friends on Amazon Photos already. Let us know what you think in the comments below. What will be your best pick out of the two?

Ralph Gary
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