# Open source replaces the government's billion-dollar cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-10-20
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - October 19th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:40:04 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJKFr9wAYwA&t=2404s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-10-20-open-source-replaces-the-government-s-billion-doll-y3dn/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Open source replaces the government's billion-dollar cloud," Akash Weekly - October 19th 2022 (Akash Network), 20 Oct 2022, 00:40:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJKFr9wAYwA&t=2404s

## Quote — verbatim

> A government... spends billions of dollars for Amazon to have a sovereign deployment platform, which can be replaced by open source system. So open source is clearly winning here, and that's the story that is going to matter when it comes to larger enterprises and institutions.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On the DoD deploying to its own hardware via Akash instead of contracting hyperscalers; he notes getting Kubernetes doesn't give you deployability, Akash does.