# Sovereign cloud services are the future

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-08-18
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - August 17th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZFaKHqVqQ&t=555s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-08-18-sovereign-cloud-services-are-the-future-7jx4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Sovereign cloud services are the future," Akash Weekly - August 17th 2022 (Akash Network), 18 Aug 2022, 00:09:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZFaKHqVqQ&t=555s

## Quote — verbatim

> Now we're seeing this VPN service on Akash, 54 cents a month, that you have full control over, that you have full sovereignty over... that gives me all kinds of new ideas, right, like what kind of services are possible in the future on Akash where you can guarantee sovereignty for the users.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Reacting to a community member running a personal VPN on Akash cheaper than any commercial VPN; he frames sovereignty and privacy as the defining values of the new cloud.