# The rise of DWS — decentralized web services

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF))
- **Watch at:** 00:10:01 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=601s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-07-01-the-rise-of-dws-decentralized-web-services-jk4r/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The rise of DWS — decentralized web services," WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF)), 1 Jul 2022, 00:10:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=601s

## Quote — verbatim

> We're seeing the rise of DWS, or decentralized web services, I call it... Akash definitely is the small global spot market that never existed before. So I think each of the platforms are finding the niches and specializing to those niches, and I think we're going to continue seeing that solidification, product market fits.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Trend question; he groups Akash, Livepeer, Arweave, Graph, Storj, Filecoin, and Sia under the DWS umbrella, each specializing (e.g., Arweave in permanent storage).