Amazon's Cloud Player service has gone live in the UK Pocket-lint can confirm. The new service, which has been available in the US for some time, will allow users to store there music in a locker in the Cloud to be accessed via the web or dedicated apps on their smartphone.
Users in the UK will automatically have all purchases they've made in the past with Amazon stored to their account before being prompted to sync songs from their computer or phone.
The free service, which is similar to iTunes Match, will allow you to store around 250 songs (5GB) before prompting you to upgrade the storage space. Songs you buy from Amazon don't count towards your total storage allocation.
Customers looking to store more songs will be able to but a range of packages from £6 for 20GB to 200GB for £64.
To put that into perspective, a 25GB iTunes account of almost 5000 songs will let you listen to music back to back for two weeks non stop - with Amazon it would cost you £16 a year to run.
The service is expected to be officially announced today, ahead of the roll out of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire UK October release. Amazon customers can log in now to get started.
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