Can I backup my iPhoto library to Amazon Cloud?

Now that Amazon is providing unlimited cloud storage for photos (if you have Amazon Prime), I want to find the easiest way (assuming it's possible) to back up my iPhoto (9.5.1) to Amazon?  Any info on this would be appreciated.

Which is good, but you know, when you recommend and app or a workflow you need to warn people of the limitations of your suggestions.
Of course!! But we where talking about Amazon Cloud and "File => Export"... and Phoshare until Photo app did that work quite well (and automatically with cronjob)! 
There are many ways to back up an iPhoto Library, an Aperture Library, a Photos library. Online is on the only way to back up - and is certainly the most expensive and the least efficient.
He talk about  "sync", too. And I never found nothing able to do it (except Time Machine... but it's not cloud).

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