The idea of photo stream was that you could have your photos on more than one of your devices but not stored on an ongoing basis in the cloud. The photos would

The idea of photo stream was that you could have your photos on more than one of your devices but not stored on an ongoing basis in the cloud. The photos would be stored in the cloud for up to 30 days to allow each of your subscribed devices to download them within locally within that timeframe, then would be deleted.