# Akash as the open-source AWS with provider add-on services

- **Speaker:** Adam Bozanich
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-12-20
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "The Akashian Challenge: Closing Live Stream" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:57:20 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXW6N4R6j80&t=3440s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2020-12-20-akash-as-the-open-source-aws-with-provider-add-on-ejkk/
- **Cite as:** Adam Bozanich, "Akash as the open-source AWS with provider add-on services," "The Akashian Challenge: Closing Live Stream" (Akash Network), 20 Dec 2020, 00:57:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXW6N4R6j80&t=3440s

## Quote — verbatim

> Amazon AWS started with S3 and maybe some compute, and today it's an entire jungle of services — it's a monolith, they control the whole thing. We see this as the open-source version of that, and we see it going to having that amount of diversity of services available on the network.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answer on private Docker image support, envisioning provider-offered add-on services (log retention, fast storage). **Speaker:** Adam Bozanich (CTO), not Greg; Greg adds the design principle of "doing less things but doing it really well."