diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 996607d0d9..bb3f093e1b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ module = [
     "pytorch_lightning.trainer.connectors.logger_connector",
     "pytorch_lightning.utilities.argparse",
     "pytorch_lightning.utilities.cli",
+    "pytorch_lightning.utilities.cloud_io",
     "pytorch_lightning.utilities.device_dtype_mixin",
     "pytorch_lightning.utilities.device_parser",
     "pytorch_lightning.utilities.parsing",
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cloud_io.py b/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cloud_io.py
index 6bd6a172a7..9b40f6d69c 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cloud_io.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cloud_io.py
@@ -14,15 +14,20 @@
 
 import io
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import IO, Union
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, IO, Optional, Union
 
 import fsspec
 import torch
-from fsspec.implementations.local import LocalFileSystem
+from fsspec.implementations.local import AbstractFileSystem, LocalFileSystem
 from packaging.version import Version
 
 
-def load(path_or_url: Union[str, IO, Path], map_location=None):
+def load(
+    path_or_url: Union[str, IO, Path],
+    map_location: Optional[
+        Union[str, Callable, torch.device, Dict[Union[str, torch.device], Union[str, torch.device]]]
+    ] = None,
+) -> Any:
     if not isinstance(path_or_url, (str, Path)):
         # any sort of BytesIO or similiar
         return torch.load(path_or_url, map_location=map_location)
@@ -33,7 +38,7 @@ def load(path_or_url: Union[str, IO, Path], map_location=None):
         return torch.load(f, map_location=map_location)
 
 
-def get_filesystem(path: Union[str, Path]):
+def get_filesystem(path: Union[str, Path]) -> AbstractFileSystem:
     path = str(path)
     if "://" in path:
         # use the fileystem from the protocol specified
@@ -42,7 +47,7 @@ def get_filesystem(path: Union[str, Path]):
     return LocalFileSystem()
 
 
-def atomic_save(checkpoint, filepath: str):
+def atomic_save(checkpoint: Dict[str, Any], filepath: Union[str, Path]) -> None:
     """Saves a checkpoint atomically, avoiding the creation of incomplete checkpoints.
 
     Args: