# Half of every cloud-service dollar goes to the big clouds

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2022-09-19
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Analysis - Why decentralization is important (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:46 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zESYdtwsyQ&t=46s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-19-half-of-every-cloud-service-dollar-goes-to-the-big-mydb/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Half of every cloud-service dollar goes to the big clouds," Akash Analysis - Why decentralization is important (Akash Network), 19 Sept 2022, 00:00:46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zESYdtwsyQ&t=46s

## Quote — verbatim

> 50 \[percent\] on average of the costs, all the margins, actually goes to the big cloud providers. It's incredible — half of every dollar we pay to cloud services, all of us, goes to Uncle Jeff... the invisible rent seeker that we all don't realize.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing a16z's "cost of cloud" post; his recurring "Amazon tax" argument for why decentralizing cloud lowers costs economy-wide. **Speaker:** uncredited clip; likely Greg.