File Requirements for Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive

Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive support most of the commonly used file types and formats for photos and videos.

Supported by Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive


Photo and Video Types (This is not a definitive list)	Photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, most TIFF, HEIF, HEVC, HEIC, and some RAW format files. Videos: MP4, QuickTime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash, HEIF, HEVC, and OGG.
RAW File Types (This is not a definitive list)	Nikon (NEF files) Canon (CR2 Files) ARW (Sony) CRW (Canon RAW CIFF image) ORF (Olympus) files DNG files


Photo and Video Types	iOS Burst Google Motion Photos Samsung Motion Photos 3D Photos Equirectangular Panoramic Photos Lenticular Photos Leica Photos
Incompatible Characters	File names cannot contain: Any special characters (<>:"/\\|?*\) or Unicode \x00 - \x1F $$ File names cannot end in: CON PRN AUX NUL COM[1-9] LPT[1-9] A space or a period
File and Folder Names Restrictions	Files names must contain fewer than 255 characters. Folder names must contain fewer than 255 characters.