When comparing SpiderOak vs Amazon Drive, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud storage services for Mac?” SpiderOak is ranked 6th while Amazon Drive is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Zero knowledge
Data is locally encrypted before uploading to Spideroak. They cannot recover your data even if they wanted to since it is stored in encrypted state on their servers.
Pro Unintrusive
Pro Unlimited space
There are no limits on how much data you can upload.
Pro Secure
It runs on top of S3 which is very secure, and does not get "all up in your kernel" like Dropbox does.
Pro Mobile, web and desktop apps
You can access your cloud from wherever you want.
Pro Backed by Amazon
Amazon S3 is one of the best network infrastructure in the world and Amazon Drive is probably based on this.