# Four companies control the cloud — and that is scary

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-08-11
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Unstoppable Cloud and Building a Decentralized Web with Greg Osuri (The Index Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:30 — https://www.podpage.com/the-index-podcast/blog/unstoppable-cloud-and-building-a/
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-11-four-companies-control-the-cloud-and-that-is-scary-uglx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Four companies control the cloud — and that is scary," Unstoppable Cloud and Building a Decentralized Web with Greg Osuri (The Index Podcast), 11 Aug 2021, 00:05:30. https://www.podpage.com/the-index-podcast/blog/unstoppable-cloud-and-building-a/

## Quote — verbatim

> You actually end up spending a lot more money on the cloud than running a data center. And these cloud companies now have 81% market share. So if you imagine cloud is a fabric of society... Majority of this cloud is actually controlled by four companies. And that very thought is scary.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The Akash origin story — enormous idle supply meets a cloud market "about to be a trillion dollar market," with AWS alone valued over $500B.