# Cloud is cheap short-term, expensive long-term (2018 whitepaper thesis)

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - August 31st 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:19:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlkC2WcGvY&t=1180s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-01-cloud-is-cheap-short-term-expensive-long-term-2018-zxoc/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud is cheap short-term, expensive long-term (2018 whitepaper thesis)," Akash Weekly - August 31st 2022 (Akash Network), 1 Sept 2022, 00:19:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlkC2WcGvY&t=1180s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you read Akash's white paper, we said cloud only looks great on the short term but on the long term is actually very expensive, and people are now starting to realize that.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing reports of Walmart moving off public cloud into its own data centers as vindication of the 2018 whitepaper.