Cloud Decentralization

“60% of Ethereum nodes are running on AWS right now, which is kind of sad… it doesn’t really matter how decentralized the network is, [it] really comes down to your physical deployment. If you’re running on Amazon, I don’t consider that decentralized at all, especially when the majority of your network is running on a single cloud provider.” — 00:58:06

“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

“We have about 150 edge sites that Akash is ready to go on… when we unlock those edge sites through Packet, I believe it’s going to be 150 metro areas delivering at under 10 millisecond latency — that’s extremely attractive for high-content, high-bandwidth streaming.” — 00:50:19

“We believe the future is interoperability, because Akash cannot do everything you need for a full cloud deployment… we’d rather work with teams or projects that have their expertise… interoperability, I believe, will be the future and is key for scalability and adoption.” — 00:40:56

“There were, I believe, nine or ten nodes that went down right around the time there was an outage in AWS — so only nine out of 91 nodes are actually on AWS. I take that with a lot of pride, because Ethereum has over 60% of the nodes on AWS, or cloud in general.” — 00:06:43

“Because Akash is unstoppable — that means you cannot take down the workload unless you have the key to the workload… borderless knowledge sharing, borderless commerce, truly borderless that cannot be stopped, is a big use case for Akash.” — 00:52:25

“We tap into world’s unused cloud capacity — 85% of the global cloud capacity that’s sitting in data centers is not used… probably even more, we’re being conservative with our estimates.” — 00:32:55

“Akash Network is the world’s first non-custodial cloud that can offer anywhere up to two times to ten times lower cost than the current cloud.” — 00:30:01

“A big vision for us for Akash is to become the gateway for decentralized cloud… what we want is to enable Akash users to use key management on NuCypher and pay using Akash token… so that cross-chain interoperability is very, very important for Akash.” — 01:00:30

“Building a free and open cloud is very, very important. And extending that to regions that experience oppression is very, very important… So you can imagine a world where people host their own super minis in different parts of the world and run the cloud on those super minis. That’s a fantastic outcome, right?” — 00:22:57

“We envision Akash to be in that forefront as a gateway to the decentralized cloud… I think we’re just seeing a Cambrian explosion of decentralized dCloud or dWeb… of projects that are actually shipping products today… the next step for us as an industry is to figure out how to reduce friction for adoption.” — 00:33:23

“Cloud infrastructure, the backbone of the internet, it’s getting increasingly centralized. It’s controlled by the monopoly of literally four companies… you pay the cloud tax, the Amazon tax, we call it, invisibly. And the mission of Akash is to really break the logopoly.” — 00:05:16

“That is a power of non-custodial interfaces… extending that similar experience for cloud is amazing… We don’t have a web interface yet, but you can kind of see how that will turn out to be like a Uniswap for like cloud deployments.” — 00:13:13

“We are a big contributor to IBC, and the reason why we wanted to use IBC is because we believe in a frictionless interoperable cloud, [with] Akash really being positioned as a gateway to a decentralized cloud.” — 00:50:16

“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.” — 00:57:20

“100%. I mean, I think we can cover at least 200 Solanas with the current capacity that we have… we don’t have a supply problem.” — 00:49:27

“300 billion dollars at 100 [percent] market penetration would be nice. It’ll be like the clouds — it’ll be everywhere.” — 00:58:45

“How do you detect this illegal content? How do you remove it? Especially considering if you’re Amazon you probably have one company, but in Akash you have thousands if not millions of providers when we reach maturity.” — 00:52:18

“The moment you say we can introduce a governance process, that means… you’re introducing censorship… we don’t have the tools and technologies to even understand what the content is.” — 00:53:00

“The real problems we’re solving is cheaper, better, faster compute… Akash, by outsourcing and really bringing on different providers and letting users set the price, you are actually reducing the cost of compute… the amount of steps you need to take to go deploy something on Amazon is exponentially greater than what you can do on Akash.” — 01:12:58

“From one hand you have this incredible usability gains, from the other hand you have this amazing censorship resistance in a permissionless way… all this great adoption that we had is just a testament to these two incredible important features that Akash can provide.” — 00:45:54

“Right now it’s command line, but soon enough… you can see a world where their web interfaces are much more simple interfaces, ideally signed by web wallets, and the users themselves can deploy any DEX UI. So that’s really where we’re going.” — 00:43:48