# Akash is 8x cheaper than Amazon today

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-04-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:30 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=510s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-04-09-akash-is-8x-cheaper-than-amazon-today-eznt/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is 8x cheaper than Amazon today," Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos), 9 Apr 2021, 00:08:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=510s

## Quote — verbatim

> Some of the users are getting eight times lower costs than Amazon... a half gigabyte box... cost\[s\] about 16 \[dollars\] a month; on Akash it costs about one dollar eighty cents... it's cheaper, it's faster, and it's censorship resistant, and no one can stop you from using Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining why blockchain projects (e.g., anonymity-preferring ThorChain) were early adopters — cost plus permissionlessness.