"self-hosted" just means you host it yourself. Where and how is up to you, but the instance is entirely in your control. "Deploy to cloud" is just an answer to

"self-hosted" just means you host it yourself. Where and how is up to you, but the instance is entirely in your control. "Deploy to cloud" is just an answer to the "where and how" - a singular option. This is (typically, though not always) different from SaaS and on-prem, the former being hosted/managed/monitored by a third party, and the latter meaning hosted by you, usually managed and monitored by a third party - often for regulatory or whitelabelling reasons.