Cloud accounts · Testing, editing and removing accounts
What does "remote" mean in Storage Studio?
Short answer: A remote is any place outside your Mac's own disks that Storage Studio works with — a cloud account, a bucket, or an FTP or SFTP server. In practice it means the same as a cloud account.
A remote is simply any place outside your Mac's own disks that Storage Studio can send files to or read them from — a cloud account like Google Drive, a bucket, or an FTP or SFTP server. That's why the window is called Remotes & Accounts.
In everyday use, "remote" and "cloud account" mean the same thing. Each one has a nickname, and that nickname is what you pick in Data Transfers, Data Parking and backups.