# Everybody pays the Amazon tax

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-02-08
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=255s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-02-08-everybody-pays-the-amazon-tax-u4yo/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Everybody pays the Amazon tax," The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3), 8 Feb 2021, 00:04:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=255s

## Quote — verbatim

> So you are paying for the cloud without knowing you're paying for the cloud. There is this infamous term called the Amazon tax. Everybody pays an Amazon tax, but you just don't realize it. So it's a very integral part. It's a core fabric that runs the internet and it's closed.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering why anyone needs a decentralized cloud; cloud framed as the operating system of modern applications.