Amazon recently released its Cloud Drive Photos app as a competitor to Apple’s own iCloud-based Photo Stream service. Users get 5 gigabytes worth of free cloud storage and just like Photo Stream, images are uploaded to Amazon’s cloud through Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, which accesses an iOS device’s camera roll, or via an OS X app that can be downloaded from Amazon’s website. Photos can be viewed on the iOS and OS X apps or on a web client.
Since Amazon doesn’t have access to high-level iOS device functions, operations aren’t as seamless as Apple’s implementation but the app brings
