Amazon's AWS S3 service continues to support new rclone users. Amazon blamed security concerns and also banned other upload utilities.

Amazon Drive had been advertised as offering unlimited storage for £55 per year. In May 2017, Amazon barred new rclone users from its consumer Amazon Drive file storage product. Rclone was promoted to stable version 1.00 in July 2014. Concerns about the noise and power costs arising from home computer servers prompted him to embrace cloud storage and he began developing rclone as open source software in 2012 under the name swiftsync. Official Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Brew, Chocolatey, and other package managers include rclone. Rclone is commonly a front-end for media servers such as Plex, Emby or Jellyfin to stream content direct from consumer file storage services. It provides further management functions analogous to those ordinarily used for files on local disks, but which tolerate some intermittent and unreliable service. Rclone is well known for its rclone sync and rclone mount commands. Those prior to 2020 include the alternative Rsync for Cloud Storage.

ĭescriptions of rclone often carry the strapline Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.

The rclone website lists supported backends including S3 and Google Drive. Its capabilities include sync, transfer, crypt, cache, union, compress and mount. Rclone is an open source, multi threaded, command line computer program to manage or migrate content on cloud and other high latency storage. Intel/AMD-64, Intel/AMD-32, ARM-32, ARM-64, MIPS-Big-Endian, MIPS-Little-Endian

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