“The cloud” is a generic term to describe a company’s network of servers to which you connect. Amazon has its own cloud; so do Apple, Google and a lot of other companies. The cloud makes sharing documents, photos and pretty much any type of file easy, using any device running any operating system. Storing files in any location other than company-sanctioned servers makes those files difficult for IT to find and track. The power behind the cloud is storage and Everything as a Service.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2599585/how-to-explain-the-cloud-to-end-users.html