Posted on August 4th

If you subscribe to Amazon Prime then you have access to a number of different benefits. Those benefits include everything from discounts during Prime Day to free shipping on your purchases, access to Prime Video for your TV streaming needs, as well as Amazon Music Prime, Prime Reading, Prime Gaming and more. 

One of the most overlooked Amazon Photos, but what is it and how does it work? 

We're exploring Amazon's secure digital storage service and what it means to you. 

What is Amazon Photos?

Amazon Photos is a perk of being an Amazon Prime member. As part of your Prime membership package, you get access to secure digital cloud storage for your photos and videos.

This includes up to 5GB of video storage for your personal video files as well as unlimited storage for your photos. Those photos can also be stored at full-resolution meaning you can easily back up your precious family memories at no additional cost. 

Amazon Photos is designed for personal use and not commercial photos but otherwise, you can store images and even set up a "Family Vault". 

What is Family Vault?

Amazon Photos gives you the ability to add as many as six members of your family to your Prime account so you can upload photos and videos together. This means your family can access the digital photo archive and add to it. 

Bettr still, the people added to the Family Vault get access to their own Amazon Photos account at no extra cost, with the same benefit of unlimited photo storage and 5GB of video storage too. 

Once uploaded to Amazon Photos your images are then available to view in a number of ways. You can set them to display on various devices including Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Echo Show devices and Amazon Fire Tablets. 

What are the other features of Amazon Photos?

Amazon Photos does more than let you just store your favourite photos, it also lets you organise them into albums, share them with loved ones and even filter through them in various ways. 

Amazon Photos uses some intelligent tech to scan your photos and identify things, people and objects in the images. You can then use the filters to select and show specific images sorted by this type. For example, you can click on a face on the filters and it will automatically sort the photos to show that person. 

There's a search function on the desktop version of Amazon Photos that you can use to find particular things based on a quick search term. We managed to use this to filter photos of family members based on a description but you can also just search for things like BBQ for example with ease. 

How to upload to Amazon photos

There are various different ways to upload your photos to Amazon Photos so you can securely store and access them. Some of these options allow for automatic upload too. 

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