A collection of data stored on a computer with a specific name and format. Like a digital document, photo, or song that you can save and organize.
Your vacation photos, work documents, and music songs are all different types of files stored on your device.
A "file" is the basic unit of data stored with a name and format. In cloud platforms, managed file services (EFS, Azure Files, Filestore, OCI File Storage) provide shared file systems so multiple servers can read/write files using standard file protocols (commonly NFS; Azure Files also supports SMB).