It takes a second or two longer to load the Cloud Drive page than either the Dropbox or the Google Drive folder but it's similar in operation.

Unlike the desktop apps for Dropbox or Google Drive, you access Cloud Drive via your browser instead of a desktop folder. Hands on with Amazon Cloud Drive apps for Windows and Mac.After logging in for the first time and clicking through or skipping the quick tour, you can click the link in Step 4 of the tour or click on the cloud icon in your system tray or menu bar to open Amazon Cloud Drive. On Macs, the cloud icon appears in the menu bar at the top of your display.Īfter installing the app, a log-in window appears you need an Amazon account to use Cloud Drive. On PCs, it places a small cloud icon in the system tray in the lower-right corner.

Step 1: Download the app ( PC | Mac) and install it. To get you started with the Amazon Cloud Drive application, here is a step-by-step guide: It differs somewhat from the Google Drive application, and Dropbox's desktop app for that matter, but fundamentally, it's very similar to these two other services. Following last week's introduction of Google Drive, Amazon earlier this week released a desktop application for its Cloud Drive service. Another week, another cloud storage application.

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