# The cloud's promise is a false premise — outages prove it

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-02-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:57 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeDGAt7IUk&t=297s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-02-19-the-cloud-s-promise-is-a-false-premise-outages-pro-idod/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The cloud's promise is a false premise — outages prove it," The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network), 19 Feb 2021, 00:04:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUeDGAt7IUk&t=297s

## Quote — verbatim

> Cloud gives you this false premise that, hey, it's ultimately scalable — put all your eggs in one basket and we'll take care of everything. And what happened today, this morning: Binance went down, FTX went down, because they all trusted Amazon is the panacea... it's just false. These things keep going down over and over and again.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

A major AWS outage that morning had disrupted crypto exchanges; he positions Akash as a disaster-recovery/failover site since "you can't keep your eggs in one single basket."