# AWS can cancel web3 with a stroke of a pen

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-06-22
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly Spaces - June 22nd (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:32:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZu_1QW7sw&t=1960s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-06-22-aws-can-cancel-web3-with-a-stroke-of-a-pen-bixc/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AWS can cancel web3 with a stroke of a pen," Akash Weekly Spaces - June 22nd (Akash Network), 22 Jun 2022, 00:32:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZu_1QW7sw&t=1960s

## Quote — verbatim

> Obviously AWS can cancel web three with a strike of a pen, right? So one man controls it, essentially.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Responding to a community member's "if all web3 runs on an AWS server, is it really web3?"; he adds Akash now requires its own validators to run on Akash and that ~52% of Osmosis nodes sit on traditional cloud.