The My Cloud Home comes with five "services": Plex, Social and Cloud Import, My Cloud Alexa Skill; IFTTT; and Network Import.

The Alexa skill allows you to play your My Cloud music (not just the stuff you've stored on Amazon) by saying, "Alexa, ask my Cloud to play Party Playlist."

Social and Cloud Import - sync with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Facebook, Google PhotosMy Cloud Alexa Skill - Connects you to your music collection on your My Cloud Home

You can even use an Alexa skill to connect to the device (note - I have not tested this feature - only noting the potential)

If you have dreams of setting up the Alexa skill and streaming music from this drive, you've got big dreams

Other service options to expand functionality includes Channels DVR, Plex server, Alexa skills, IFTTT, Sonos, and Network importing.

avoid this unit at all costs, It will not work as you expect a network drive to.

The app interface is clean and simple, but very limited as to what you can do within, and not very intuitive to navigate

avoid this unit at all costs, It will not work as you expect a network drive to.

The app interface is clean and simple, but very limited as to what you can do within, and not very intuitive to navigate

This one gives you almost no control over setting up static IP’s, or using it as anything other than a backup (which it has to remain connected to the internet to even use.