Plex can now organize and play your movies from Amazon’s cloud

Plex wants you to have all your digital movies available on your Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nvidia Shield whenever you need it without having to maintain expensive storage drives and finicky routers.

The company revealed today that it is partnering with Amazon to power the new Plex Cloud service that is live now as an invite-only beta. This new premium offering from Plex enables you to keep an unlimited number of movies, television shows, and movies stored on a remote Amazon server that is always on and ready to serve up your content to your gaming consoles and other devices. Plex is already one of the top services for organizing your personal media, and now it wants to remove the step that causes the most headaches: running your own local server. This means that even total novices can start their own version of Netflix or Hulu with the content they own without having to buy a 4TB hard drive and without having to keep a PC or Shield running 24/7.