# The USP: world's first open cloud, 90% cheaper, distribution Amazon can't give

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Ask Akash: Why not focus on Web 2 adoption for Akash? (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:17 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEJzxGmFj4&t=257s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-07-01-the-usp-world-s-first-open-cloud-90-cheaper-distri-3bu7/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The USP: world's first open cloud, 90% cheaper, distribution Amazon can't give," Ask Akash: Why not focus on Web 2 adoption for Akash? (Akash Network), 1 Jul 2022, 00:04:17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEJzxGmFj4&t=257s

## Quote — verbatim

> You have heavy distribution from a provider base and you have amazing user experience from a user base, along with product market fit, along with cost being 90 \[percent\] lower. Now that's the unique selling proposition that Amazon can't give — and all this in an open source \[way\]. Our USP is world's first open cloud... our USP is better, cheaper, faster. How is it faster? Low latency delivery using 500,000 nodes across the world.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering how Akash could eventually attract large Web2 companies; the 500,000-node figure is aspirational scale, not then-current (Akash had ~30 providers at the time).