Anything you export using the LR export function, unless you check export original, will have the edits made within LR. The way I work is I do all of my edits from within the program and I keep no duplicates of anything anywhere else, except for the backup files. I print directly from LR. Some people do seem to have duplicate files kept all over the place but I cannot think of any reason to do this; when I need to share an image I export it in the file type as needed, send it where it needs to go, then delete if from my hard drive. Or, I share via email directly through LR. This is a "clean" and simple way for me to work and I never have to worry about getting confused on what is and what is not. I can get any photo in an instant from LR if needed. I make sure that all RAW files are backed up and that I have two catalog backups located on different drives. One time I did export about 4000 files to a second drive to keep offsite; these were my finished files (I think in TIF) and that little drive right now sits by my door in case of a forest fire, although I hopefully will be able to pick up my computer drives before I run in case of a fire! How you choose to use your cloud storage has nothing to do with LR, that is a decision that you make independent of how you use LR. You can check out my LR website, www.viathelens.net and pick up, you can get it as a digital file, the Martin Evening book on LR.

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One other bit of advice. Never move files except from within LR, not File Explorer or another program. LR will lose track of where they are. And correcting it can be a pain.
Your original image is left alone by LR, it loads a copy, makes all your edits, including ones done in other apps like PS and saved back to LR then creates a folder of the edits that is separate. When you go to LR and click on the thumbnail of your edited image LR pulls up another copy of the image from the original file, applies the edits and shows it, ready for more editing or printing. If you move that original image then all LR has is the very low rez thumbnail showing the edited results. Then you have to find the original and tell LR where it is. If you are lucky LR can find it on its own >Library>Find All Missing Photos and click, it will search and maybe find them on its own. If not you have to find the images where ever you moved them and tell LR where to find them.