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Their primary use is enterprise not private consumers. Think of virtualized OS accessible over internet that you can manage/protect and provide for example to some random consultant. Or just provide more powerful PC on low end HW.
It's costly though and not sure it ever gained traction because there always were alternatives like Citrix Desktops.
Maybe there's a use case, but I'm anti-cloud and always will be. I struggle to think of a situation I couldn't do better with in-house (or even air gapped) VMs of my own.
Anyone who watches 365 uptime knows that Microsoft's cloud is a fragile laughing stock. They use a Twitter account because their own status portal is so laughably trash and unreliable. If you don't believe me I don't blame you. Here it is.
The day I trust any cloud platform (Especially Microsoft) is the day I promise to jump off a cliff.
Thank you. Exactly. The term "cloud" is just code for "someone else's computer" and as you say, there's very little that cannot be done without it. And once you entrust your data to someone else's hardware, all you really have are assurances and probabilities that what you expect will happen with it becomes what actually happens with it. No guarantees.
And you pay for all this, monthly, until the end of time.
I don't blame anyone that wants to go that route, I use a freebie bit of cloud for phone photos myself, but anything of more import, nah. More "cloud" for everyone else, I suppose, because they can have my share.