It's probably very hard to market to this target audience effectively when so many people are familiar with DropBox and OneDrive that are often bundled with or supported by other services. I'm surprised they are dropping it given how big they are in cloud services but I could see how not many people would have found it to see the benefit of using it as an online-only drive. Amazon Drive allows just dropping files into the space without syncing. A lot of cloud drives like OneDrive and DropBox keep files both locally and in the cloud and getting them to behave as online-only isn't all that intuitive. I found it randomly trying to find a cloud storage provider that behaved more like a cloud hard drive than a synced drive.

Review sites of cloud storage don't mention it often, if at all.

I was going to say the same, I think they didn't market it very well. Honestly, I didn't even known that Amazon Drive was a thing, so maybe that was part of the problem. Therefore, the following method would write to storage/app/example.I think the market can only handle so many 'Drive' providers, but I am surprised that Amazon is tossing in the towel.

By default, this value is set to the storage/app directory. When using the local driver, all file operations are relative to the root directory defined in your filesystems configuration file. You may configure as many disks as you like and may even have multiple disks that use the same driver. The local driver interacts with files stored locally on the server running the Laravel application while the s3 driver is used to write to Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. Example configurations for each supported driver are included in the configuration file so you can modify the configuration to reflect your storage preferences and credentials. Each disk represents a particular storage driver and storage location.

Within this file, you may configure all of your filesystem 'disks'. Laravel's filesystem configuration file is located at config/filesystems.php. Even better, it's amazingly simple to switch between these storage options between your local development machine and production server as the API remains the same for each system. The Laravel Flysystem integration provides simple drivers for working with local filesystems, SFTP, and Amazon S3. Laravel provides a powerful filesystem abstraction thanks to the wonderful Flysystem PHP package by Frank de Jonge.

Amazon photo storage