# Solve unused capacity and you don't need AWS

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-07-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=982s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-07-15-solve-unused-capacity-and-you-don-t-need-aws-q5jq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Solve unused capacity and you don't need AWS," "Akash Network Deep Dive: The Unstoppable Cloud, Powered by Cosmos!" (Cryptocito), 15 Jul 2021, 00:16:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iInoQojyg&t=982s

## Quote — verbatim

> We're attacking the problem at the core. The core of the problem which created Amazon Web Services was unused capacity. If we solve that problem, we don't need Amazon Web Services... it's not going to be a single day or a single year journey.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His thesis that Akash inverts AWS's own origin story (monetizing Amazon's idle peak-load capacity); earlier he reports data centers he deployed to ran at ~15% utilization, "85% of the time they're not used" (00:04:59).