# The invisible cloud tax

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:23 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHnfFIavA8&t=863s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-06-15-the-invisible-cloud-tax-qjec/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The invisible cloud tax," RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO), 15 Jun 2023, 00:14:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHnfFIavA8&t=863s

## Quote — verbatim

> Andreessen Horowitz wrote a very thorough, thoughtful research piece where they estimated, backed by data — they pointed out over 50 percent of the margins that these online services get goes to a cloud \[provider\]. If you use Dropbox or Asana or Netflix, 50% of... the profits are going to go into the cloud providers. So there's an invisible tax we pay, like it or not.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining cloud lock-in (BigQuery, Aurora) as the motivation for a homogeneous supercloud interface over heterogeneous providers.