# The Amazon tax: 50% of online-service spend goes to cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Messari Happy Hour Ep11 (Messari)
- **Watch at:** 00:20:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9cuO5P42i4&t=1216s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-02-01-the-amazon-tax-50-of-online-service-spend-goes-to-epln/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The Amazon tax: 50% of online-service spend goes to cloud," Messari Happy Hour Ep11 (Messari), 1 Feb 2023, 00:20:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9cuO5P42i4&t=1216s

## Quote — verbatim

> 50% of every dollar you and I spend on online services like Asana, like Netflix, like Notion goes to Amazon or Google. The Amazon tax — it's an invisible tax that we all have, and guess who pays the bill.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing a16z's "The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox"; he adds at [00:21:00] that data centers shrank from ~8.4M in 2018 to ~7.1M while hyperscalers grew, because data centers lack cloud-like tooling.