# Persistent storage enables a decentralized CDN on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "Akash Weekly: Testnet 3, Week 1 Challenges" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:20:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197CuLD5Ahw&t=1240s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-04-24-persistent-storage-enables-a-decentralized-cdn-on-ks4n/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Persistent storage enables a decentralized CDN on Akash," "Akash Weekly: Testnet 3, Week 1 Challenges" (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:20:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197CuLD5Ahw&t=1240s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash now, effectively by enabling persistent storage, you can actually build a very modern CDN on top of Akash — ideally decentralized, which will be really cool.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Responding to OmniFlix asking about CDN use cases; he tempers it later — Cloudflare has ~100 points of presence, "we don't have 100 different points yet, we will in the future."