When you think Amazon and clouds, you probably think about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the biggest public cloud service. But Amazon's services aren't just for corporations.
Amazon Cloud Drive provides 5GB of free storage. When it was first introduced, you could also use it to stream music. Now that functionality is in a separate service: Amazon Cloud Player. With this latter service, you can upload and steam up to a rather minimal 250 songs to Windows PCs, Macs, and Apple and Android devices.
You can access Amazon Cloud Drive from either the web or use a Windows app (Vista and 7 only, it currently has neither Windows 8 or XP native support), Mac, or Android devices. This app though, only adds the ability to upload files. For most of your file work, you'll still be in a web browser.
If you want more storage, Amazon offers several tiers of storage, ranging from 20 to 1,000 gigabytes at a price of 50 cents per gigabyte. So for instance, 20GB will run you $10 per year.
As a standalone cloud storage service with some extras, Amazon is OK, but to really like it, I'd need it to be more fully integrated with my desktops and devices. If your Kindle Fire is your main computing device, Cloud Drive might be your best choice, but most people can do better.
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