When I use the web interface to get my data from the cloud, how does the cloud know where it put my data? There’s a lot of information on how the cloud stores your data, but not how the cloud keeps track of your data.
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“The cloud” is just marketing speak for “Someone else’s server”. When you ask “The cloud” for information you’re actually asking a specific service for it. It’s not a vague pool of information, you’re directly asking “drive.google.com” for a specific file associated with a specific account. The server at Google Drive has a database that tells it exactly where every file is on disc and it will happily fetch it for you.
The cloud knows where your data is because whatever computer(s) you’re asking for your data are programmed to know or how to find out which database or file server has the requested data.
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