# If AWS does what Akash does, we won — open systems always win

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-05-22
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Unstoppable Livestream: exiledsurfer and Greg Osuri (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:54:37 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBL4eguqq4&t=3277s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-05-22-if-aws-does-what-akash-does-we-won-open-systems-al-dnsi/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "If AWS does what Akash does, we won — open systems always win," The Unstoppable Livestream: exiledsurfer and Greg Osuri (Akash Network), 22 May 2021, 00:54:37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBL4eguqq4&t=3277s

## Quote — verbatim

> If AWS does what Akash does, we won, right? That's the point. Akash is not a company, it's a network. It's a network of network\[s\] where the owners operate and use the network.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering "what stops AWS/Azure/GCP from copying Akash?" He backs it with history at [00:55:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBL4eguqq4&t=3322s): "Open systems historically speaking have always exhibited to have the highest forms of scalability... internet succeeded where AOL failed because it's a permissionless and open system" — growth is "gradually, then suddenly."