Permanent photo backup - iCloud, iPad, iPhone

Hello.
I just purchased 200GB plan on iCloud.
I thought it would be the easiest way to backup the photos on my iPad Air and iPhone 5.
Now while browsing trough some tutorials on the web - every site is saying that iCloud is not a photo backup solution - it only stores 1000 photos and deletes them after 30 days.
Is this true? Then why would anybody need so large iCloud plans?
Thanks.

What you're referring to is Photo Stream, which only stored 1000 of the most recent photos. With iCloud Photo Library, you can now permanently store your photos and videos on iCloud and sync them across devices. It's still in BETA though, so it has some quirks and limitations. With iOS 8.1, you can go into your iCloud settings and enable it. If you do that, it will replace your camera roll with the iCloud Photo Library and begin uploading ALL of your photos and videos to iCloud. All of these uploads will count towards your photo storage plan, but they will be permanent, as opposed to Photo Stream. As well as syncing across devices, you can also view them on the web at iCloud.com. However, the Mac Photos app will not come out until some time in 2015, so right now there are limitations to what you can do with your photos.

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