Plex cloud is officially dead you can’t use it with Amazon drive anymore so unless you’re willing to pay over $100 a month for anything over a terabyte of storage. This sucks I was really looking forward to using it and I have over 6 TB on Amazon drive right now
Sorry for your trouble. That said, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect truly “unlimited” storage/traffic for $60/yr. It’s like the wireless carriers. They say “unlimited,” but really they mean “~28 GB, which seems unlimited for the average user.” Even with Amazon’s infrastructure, hosting and serving all that data with 3-5 9s uptime is not cheap. They need to be able to make money.
I think Dropbox business is a reasonable alternative ($15 pp/month), though could see even that being terminated for excessive usage if you don’t have enough users to justify high storage amounts. For example, I saw one guy on Reddit with a datacenter-level home server with 55 TB of storage. It ran ~$15,000. At $75/mo (5 users), that would take 17 yr to just pay off the hardware, let alone redundant power with generator backup, staff overseeing issues, etc… Granted, I’m sure companies like Dropbox get better deals, but I worked in a datacenter for a while and you’d be surprised how much all the hardware and licenses cost even for large companies.
Hey,
Although Plex Cloud is dead, I think if you searched the internet for things like “Infinite Plex Media Server”, or “Mount Amazon Cloud Drive”, you will find that many people are already doing what Plex was attempting.
Perhaps their issue was having it work for the multitude of users, or perhaps they were trying to write the mounting side from scratch, or trying to simplify the user side of things…either way, this idea is already working and already used by quite a few people, myself included.
Look up acd_cli and rclone. Both of these apps are able to mount your amazon cloud drive. You need to mount it, have Plex look at the mounted directory, and you can stream movies off of it.
These solutions are primarily used in Linux, so there is a bit of a learning curve for Windows users. It’s fun, though! I find rclone more user friendly and the community seems more friendly as well.
@CTelkes said:
Look up acd_cli and rclone. Both of these apps are able to mount your amazon cloud drive. You need to mount it, have Plex look at the mounted directory, and you can stream movies off of it.
These solutions are primarily used in Linux, so there is a bit of a learning curve for Windows users. It’s fun, though! I find rclone more user friendly and the community seems more friendly as well.
But the point of Plex Cloud was that Plex hosted the server, providing faster connectivity (especially for upload) and the cloud service supplies the data store. Without Amazon’s price offering, a lot of us are stuffed on that one. Plex Cloud is useless to me now 
Dev Question: This may have been asked before - but what are the data rates you are expecting between your servers and a provider like Dropbox (for Business).
There is a service called hubic.
10TB für 50€ per year.
There is just one limitation.
10 Mbit up and download.
https://hubic.com/de/offers/
Maybe this helps.
They mentioned “OneDrive” implementation in the blog post - is “OneDrive for Business” also a thing?
This blows. I signed up for Amazon Drive the day they said “go sign up for Amazon Drive Plex Cloud is here!” It took weeks uploading my library since my upload speeds are at 10mb/s and Amazon’s app sucks so it kept starting uploads over once they got to 100%.
I was willing to shell out $60 a year literally for the convenience of not having to boot up my computer to watch a movie. So when I wasn’t home my family didn’t need to deal with logging me in, etc.
Now that’s gone. No way would I pay $100/month for that convenience. Ugh.
I too am sad that Amazon drive isn’t supported, it’s by far the best priced cloud storage. I looked into dropbox for biz, and you need 5 users min, so that adds up quickly.
Maybe in the future, Amazon will work too, who knows, for now I can load up a few things into my One Drive, and view them anywhere there’s wi-fi
After looking into the situation carefully Amazon jumped on the idea to quickly also if you look at a chart they are the slowest and newest to the game of cloud storage. They didn’t realize how much Data was going to be used so quickly so halfway into beta they told Plex to Forget about it because they didn’t want to spend more money on updating their infrastructure
Yeah this is upsetting to hear. Amazon Cloud Drive wasn’t even supporting files over 2 GB until a few weeks ago, which is why i’m now about 40% into uploading my library. I’ll probably still get it all up there, in hopes that it works one day, but now I’m back to considering building my own file server, as the cost of any other service is just too great for my needs.
The business model was never sustainable and the concept was doomed from the start. It’s unfortunate that Plex didn’t have the foresight to see the obvious like many on these forums could, and instead teased the masses with an unrealistic pie-in-the-sky product.
Hopefully Plex learns from this and gets back to their roots, honing the core product and attending to its flaws and needs instead of crazy superfluous add-ons.
@mrwufpack said:
Sorry for your trouble. That said, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect truly “unlimited” storage/traffic for $60/yr. It’s like the wireless carriers. They say “unlimited,” but really they mean “~28 GB, which seems unlimited for the average user.” Even with Amazon’s infrastructure, hosting and serving all that data with 3-5 9s uptime is not cheap. They need to be able to make money.I think Dropbox business is a reasonable alternative ($15 pp/month), though could see even that being terminated for excessive usage if you don’t have enough users to justify high storage amounts. For example, I saw one guy on Reddit with a datacenter-level home server with 55 TB of storage. It ran ~$15,000. At $75/mo (5 users), that would take 17 yr to just pay off the hardware, let alone redundant power with generator backup, staff overseeing issues, etc… Granted, I’m sure companies like Dropbox get better deals, but I worked in a datacenter for a while and you’d be surprised how much all the hardware and licenses cost even for large companies.
Not certain where the numbers came from. ACD allows 100Tb unquestioned, at 100Tb you contact support and receive additional 100Tb allocation.
This is personal experience (have 140Tb on ACD) and confirmed by other users in AWS forums.
@n4n The 100TB was changed to 1.1PB 
I was already getting worried about asking them for upgrade before my 3 months trial is over ( still more then half to go )
I’ll stick with my local server/library, thank you very much.
How about with googlde drive? I have unlimited storage for google drive account.
@sremick said:
The business model was never sustainable and the concept was doomed from the start. It’s unfortunate that Plex didn’t have the foresight to see the obvious like many on these forums could, and instead teased the masses with an unrealistic pie-in-the-sky product.Hopefully Plex learns from this and gets back to their roots, honing the core product and attending to its flaws and needs instead of crazy superfluous add-ons.
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head! I can’t believe they (Plex) ever thought this could work. I dropped plex pass when I read the blog post announcing this. Plex seems hell bent on over expanding onto any platform and adding tons of half baked features instead of improving the core media player product. It’s sad to watch them run themselves into the ground.
@uniquestream said:
How about with googlde drive? I have unlimited storage for google drive account.
This usually means you’re on an education account of some sort so make sure you’re not violating the TOS from G or your school.
I’m assuming all beta invites have stopped as well? I’ve been waiting patiently and have not gotten anything yet.
Is there any way to force it? I’m a premium dropbox subscriber.
Bollocks. Plex offers up a “too good to be true!” offering…then it turns out to be…and they send us an email with several cloud to cloud transfer subscription models? Are they that hard up for cash?
Who did you sell out to, Plex? The first company which offered you enough jake? Pffff. Oh! Several? Ahhhh, you just listed the one who paid you the most at the top. Nice work!
“That didn’t work…here are 3 companies you’ve never heard of who can transfer your files for a fee”.
Keep shelling out to those who want to ride your coattails, and you won’t have a coat left, Plex.
disgusted
I understand. I work for a corporation…“this didn’t work…how can we monetize it?”. Expected more from you, Plex. Thought you were bigger than that.
