# 80% of cloud controlled by four companies

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-10-26
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network CEO on competing with Amazon AWS, decentralized cloud computing, and free speech (Yahoo Finance)
- **Watch at:** 00:01:29 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTCd9nb5CM&t=89s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-10-26-80-of-cloud-controlled-by-four-companies-jbl4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "80% of cloud controlled by four companies," Akash Network CEO on competing with Amazon AWS, decentralized cloud computing, and free speech (Yahoo Finance), 26 Oct 2021, 00:01:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTCd9nb5CM&t=89s

## Quote — verbatim

> Internet was created as a decentralized network to fight against centralization... but over time it got increasingly centralized, and now the landscape looks like 80 percent or so of the cloud computing, which is a backbone for the internet, is controlled by four companies — Amazon being the biggest one.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His recurring cloud-centralization thesis, answering how sites get de-platformed.