The Meraki cloud is the backbone of the highly available, secure, and efficient Meraki solution, enabling instant onboarding access to all features inside the Meraki dashboard. It is comprised of highly reliable servers at various data centers around the world. The Meraki dashboard itself is a centralized, web browser-based tool used to monitor and configure Meraki devices and services. A dashboard account is what you use to log in to the dashboard in order to manage and configure your organizations, networks, and devices.