Cloud storage doesn’t come cheap and certainly Amazon has adopted a similar approach to other cloud services – by capping a limit on storage.

Previously, users could pay US$60 a year for unlimited usage of Amazon’s servers, or US$12 a year for unlimited photos. According to the Verge’s report, the company now offers only 2 pricing tiers – up to 100GB for $11.99 a year, or up to 1TB for $60. It costs an extra $60 a year for each terabyte on top of this, with a top limit of 30 terabytes.

The new tiering will be implemented immediately, although users who has signed up for the unlimited storage previously will remain will access to unlimited storage until the offer expires. For those who’ve turned on auto renew, you’d be automatically transferred to the new $60 a year plan.

Amazon Prime customers still gets unlimited photo storage as part of their membership, and anyone who signs up for Amazon Drive will also get 5GB for free.

Amazon says users taking advantage of the unlimited storage deal who don’t want to start paying for one of the new plans will have 180 days to download or delete their data. After that grace period, Amazon will start deleting content for them (starting with most recent uploads) until the account falls within the new limits.