One in five individuals aged between 16 to 74 used Internet storage space for saving files in the European Union (EU) in 2014, the EU's statistical office said in a press release on Tuesday.

Cloud services, a relatively new form of web service using cloud technology and developed in recent years, offer opportunities for storing and sharing large files or using software on a server run over the Internet, Eurostat said.

The largest proportion of individuals using the cloud was found amongst young people and only a minority of users of cloud services used paid-for services, it said.
The main reasons for using cloud services were described as using files from several devices or locations, easily sharing files with other persons and getting protection against data loss.