# A thousand providers within 12 months; more distributed than Amazon

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-03-30
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:31 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=811s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-03-30-a-thousand-providers-within-12-months-more-distrib-vt5y/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A thousand providers within 12 months; more distributed than Amazon," Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi), 30 Mar 2023, 00:13:31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=811s

## Quote — verbatim

> It is the largest market — we have about 50 providers right now... and that's growing very quickly, and with incentives we expect at least a thousand provider footprint in the next 12 months... it will be the most distributed network. I think from a regional distribution, Akash is a lot more distributed than Amazon's... the way we're trending, it's only a matter of time.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Right after the Airbnb-vs-Hilton analogy for Akash vs AWS; a quantified 12-month forecast made March 2023. He later notes low-end pricing "85% cheaper than Amazon" with high-end options 2-3x more (00:17:05).