> In the era of the internet and "the cloud", the report is going to be available to everyone forever (if it was ever available in the first place).
Not forever. Only as long as there's enough people caring about it. Even if it won't disappear over the next years as companies shut down their cloud services and people don't move all their data to new ones, it can and will effectively disappear when people lose "references" pointing to it. To find something on-line, you need an engine that indexes it, but more importantly, you need to be aware what to look for in the first place (and have a reason to). Link rot is a real thing too.
The cloud is one of the most fragile and short-term way of storing information humanity has ever invented.
Not forever. Only as long as there's enough people caring about it. Even if it won't disappear over the next years as companies shut down their cloud services and people don't move all their data to new ones, it can and will effectively disappear when people lose "references" pointing to it. To find something on-line, you need an engine that indexes it, but more importantly, you need to be aware what to look for in the first place (and have a reason to). Link rot is a real thing too.
The cloud is one of the most fragile and short-term way of storing information humanity has ever invented.