# Akash has never gone down

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-12-05
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:47:32 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-WU0TaynU&t=2852s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-12-05-akash-has-never-gone-down-s6vl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash has never gone down," Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network), 5 Dec 2022, 00:47:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-WU0TaynU&t=2852s

## Quote — verbatim

> Guess what — Akash never went down, hasn't gone down. Only time it was taken down was by its validators during upgrade processes, and that's expected... when you upgrade it doesn't take the infrastructure down.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering why validators should leave centralized clouds; he cites ~80 Amazon incidents in a year and frames the choice as "hyper-risky censorship at 80% higher cost" versus Akash.