# Complement big cloud now, exceed it eventually

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly: Introducing new VP of Engineering, Chanda Dharap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:43:01 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOJlsI_CX0&t=2581s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-04-24-complement-big-cloud-now-exceed-it-eventually-gjwe/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Complement big cloud now, exceed it eventually," Akash Weekly: Introducing new VP of Engineering, Chanda Dharap (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:43:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOJlsI_CX0&t=2581s

## Quote — verbatim

> Most likely we're going to not evolve as that threat, but we're going to evolve as a complement to the big cloud... eventually Akash will support everything Amazon supports and beyond that. Let the market decide.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Follows the Airbnb analogy; also notes Google hired ~140 people for a blockchain team but "you can't buy a community" — community is the competitive moat. Second sentence is at [00:43:43].