Cloud storage is a service model or a cloud computing model in which all of your data is stored on the internet through the storage provider companies. Users store their data on the storage provided by these providers companies. All the storage is managed and operated by those providers, you don’t need to worry about that. You pay for the storage that you use.

By using this online storage, you don’t need to store data on your local computer hard drives. Because you can store only a limited amount of data on your hard drives. When you ran out of storage, you need an external storage device to store more of your data. But by using online storage, you will get unlimited storage to store any of your files. You can access this data from any device such as your computer or mobile, any time and from anywhere by the use of a stable internet connection.

Moreover, cloud storage provides you elasticity, it means you can control your capacity when data storage increases or can also lower down the capacity if needed. You only have to pay according to your consumption of storage. But you even pay more to get higher data volumes. It’s up to you for which purposes you are using online storage.