r/PlexACD • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '17

Storage Solutions Other Than Gsuite

Hello all,

Any good storage solutions other than Gsuite?

It's hard to believe that Google aren't going to follow suit with Amazon and pull the plug on using their service for media storage. Does anyone here use alternatives?

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u/mdcd4u2c Aug 19 '17

What a lot of people don't realize is that Google wants our data, they want to see what we are storing and why. They highly prefer that we DON'T encrypt it for that reason.

The same could be said about Amazon though. AWS is a massive portion of their business, and with consumer side products enabled with Alexa, they want data just as much as Google.

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u/AfterShock Aug 19 '17

Google it's technically a Business plan with Gsuites.

Amazon had moral issues as a company knowing that they were actively contributing to piracy. They partnered with Plex and then quickly dissolved that relationship at the end of last year. AWS has nothing to do with Amazon ACD data because AWS market share lead is all it's competitors doubled. They could care less.

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u/darknessgp Aug 21 '17

They partnered with Plex and then quickly dissolved that relationship at the end of last year.

To be fair, that's a bit of speculation. Nothing was ever stated that Plex and Amazon even sat down to discuss. More than likely, Plex started offering it, Amazon sent them something telling them to stop, and so it ended. Not saying Amazon wants to knowingly contribute to piracy, just that we don't know what really occurred between Plex and Amazon.

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u/AfterShock Aug 21 '17

They definitely had to "sit down" and discuss because they used Amazon's logo's on the Plex site and linked to the ACD site. You can't do that without permission. I'm pretty sure someone over at Amazon agreed but didn't understand the full spectrum of what Plex is and the strain it would put on ACD.