It seems many people here commenting haven't tried it. It has no sync! The online interface is awful!
This is currently such a bad product that its not likely to be a threat to any existing solution.
Try signing up and seeing it for yourself. You will neither be able to sync or upload a lot of content, nor use it once uploaded given the poor online interface.
Might want to check some facts here. There is an Amazon Cloud Drive app for Windows and Mac that does syncing. It's not as advanced as Dropbox but it's about on par with the Google Drive app.
Their online interface isn't terrible either - it's actually surprisingly modern for an Amazon product. There's actually two views - one for files and one for photos (just like Dropbox and Carousel). Again the file browser is about as bare bones as it gets without document preview etc, but the Cloud Drive Photos view is pretty decent.
Dropbox is miles ahead of Amazon in their UI and other features, but I think for many very basic users, Amazon's offering will be sufficient for simple backup/sync operations.
I've periodically tried the consumer amazon cloud drive every few months or so since it's popped up on my radar and every time I get frustrated and remove it.
Dropbox may be reselling me the same storage at 200% markup but the interface is effortless, the software is very hard to break even with a large number of collaborators and group folders, it has a nice media browser, the public sharing abilities are top notch etc. Amazon could offer to pay me to use their Cloud Drive product and I still would not use it
Could work out fine as an upload-and-forget solution. I have a bunch of stuff I don't need to access often (if ever) and certainly don't want to keep local copies of. Currently using S3 and Glacier for that, but Cloud Drive might just fit the bill.
This is currently such a bad product that its not likely to be a threat to any existing solution.
Try signing up and seeing it for yourself. You will neither be able to sync or upload a lot of content, nor use it once uploaded given the poor online interface.