# Akash can eventually scale to compete with AWS and Google Cloud

- **Speaker:** Jack Zampolin
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-05
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Alessio Treglia, Jack Zampolin, Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOqIm4Mfu8&t=1365s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-03-05-akash-can-eventually-scale-to-compete-with-aws-and-ml2j/
- **Cite as:** Jack Zampolin, "Akash can eventually scale to compete with AWS and Google Cloud," The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Alessio Treglia, Jack Zampolin, Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network), 5 Mar 2021, 00:22:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOqIm4Mfu8&t=1365s

## Quote — verbatim

> What you planned to build is something that can eventually scale to compete with AWS and Google Cloud and all of these really major cloud providers, and the only way to do that is to build a free market because these companies have figured out how to suppress competition.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Framing the Equinix deal as validation ("hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure spend behind it"). **Speaker:** Jack Zampolin, not Greg.