What is your cloud?

Question

Data storage

Hello.
Many providers say that they have cloud VPS, cloud storage, and in general they are just such fans of the clouds. Got stoned or something.
And if the case - how, for example, the same ordinary VPS differs from Cloud VPS?
Maybe there are some diagrams out there that describe how the cloud works?
PS I live in a cave.

Answer 1

Cloud sells better, that's all.
This is the answer.
I will add:
In a nutshell, this is when data is stored and processed not on one server, but on a distributed network of servers, which gives a plus to reliability.
Technology has been around for many years, but, for example, “clustering” sounds scary and incomprehensible to a modern white-tist, but “cloud” is like a marshmallow, airy and tender, managers and vaytota piss boiling water and carry money.

Answer 2

The difference is usually in the billing.

Answer 3

The cloud comes to people more due to decoupling from the server