Akash gives placement sovereignty to the user — and clouds themselves plug in
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“What Akash does really is open up the market to these massive clusters, to small little deployments all over the world and gives the sovereignty to the user to choose what they want. And of course, the multi-cloud architecture in Akash also means that cloud companies plug into Akash directly, which they’re doing right now.” — 00:19:50
Context: From the recovered mid-episode span: latency-sensitive jobs can pin local-residency clusters, then “switch over to a more cost optimal deployment” (00:20:36); he says tier-2 cloud providers were already plugging in, framing Akash as additive multi-cloud rather than a cloud replacement.