Amazon Prime subscribers in the US can now invite up to five family members and friends to access their entire catalog of pictures and videos, via a new service the company calls Family Vault. Photos and videos can be uploaded to the Family Vault individually, or in batches, by any of the people approved for access, and can be sifted through using Prime’s new search function, which Amazon says can find photos with specific topics, dates, or people as search terms.

Prime subscribers  could previously send direct links to photos to other people, but the new feature means that they are able to share the benefits of unlimited photo storage with their nearest and dearest. The deal also includes 5GB of storage for videos and other files….

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