Amazon Photos vs iCloud Photos
Amazon Photos and iCloud Photos are both photo management software. Amazon Photos is a commercial product from Amazon. iCloud Photos is a commercial product from Apple Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Amazon Photos when
- You already pay for Prime and want a free backup of your photo library alongside another service.
- Pick iCloud Photos when
- Your household uses Apple devices and wants photos synced everywhere without extra apps.
Side by side
Photo backup with unlimited full-resolution photo storage for Amazon Prime members and 5 GB for video.
Syncs your photo library across iPhone, iPad and Mac through iCloud, with shared libraries and optional end-to-end encryption.
Video storage is limited, search and editing lag behind Google Photos, and the benefit ends if Prime ends.
Awkward on Windows and Android, and exporting a large library out of iCloud is slow.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Amazon
Closed source, sold by Apple Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own
19k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.