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yeah, you do know journalists sometime do simplify things, either because the author itself created simplified version of reality in their head, or they understand the complexity, but decided to simplify it to get the point across to the reader, right?
They should say at least one thing that's unique to the cloud, though.
there is no cloud, it is always someone else's computer. the only difference is "it is successful buzzword"
"cloud" still mostly means services like AWS and Google Cloud. People don't refer to Hetzner dedicated servers as "cloud" for example.
That's definitely dependent on the company. Every company I've worked for that has their own data centers refers to any service outside their direct hardware control as cloud infra. Co-lo is the only shared hosting model I've never seen considered cloud.
The widespread conflation of IaaS/PaaS with cloud is due to AWS/ GCP/ Azure marketing. VPSes used to be considered cloud, prior to IaaS and PaaS existing, because cloud was anything that was not on-prem.
Hence the buzzword part of my comment