# Akash is the gateway to the decentralized cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-03-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Sunny Aggarwal, Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:56:25 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTE_qXoFvM&t=3385s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-03-19-akash-is-the-gateway-to-the-decentralized-cloud-eu7m/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is the gateway to the decentralized cloud," The Akash Mainnet 2 Livestream w/ Sunny Aggarwal, Greg Osuri and Adam Bozanich (Akash Network), 19 Mar 2021, 00:56:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTE_qXoFvM&t=3385s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash is the only network that does compute... when you have to deploy something, you got to deploy compute and then you attach all the services to compute... so that puts us in a very amazing position of being this gateway for the decentralized cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On integrating with Handshake/ENS (DNS) and Sia/Filecoin/Arweave (storage); he cautions "do not believe the hype is adoption" and predicts a product-market-fit shakeout of decentralized networks "in the next few years" ([00:57:06]).