# Cloud parity is a multi-year journey

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-21
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Ask Akash: Thoughts on usage metrics over the last year (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:55 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB45bmSF4uY&t=775s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-11-21-cloud-parity-is-a-multi-year-journey-welv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud parity is a multi-year journey," Ask Akash: Thoughts on usage metrics over the last year (Akash Network), 21 Nov 2022, 00:12:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB45bmSF4uY&t=775s

## Quote — verbatim

> All these features are required for us to get parity \[with\] the cloud and then comfortably go to a big major Fortune 10 company or Fortune 50 company and be like, hey, move all your workloads \[to\] Akash, because now you have all the capabilities that you need to run. That's not the next few months — it's going to be next few years.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Tempering a questioner's optimism about timelines; stable payments, observability, automation, identity, and access control were still on the roadmap, with GPUs next after Mainnet 4.