# The invisible 50% cloud tax

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-06
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "\#3 - Akash Network with Greg Osuri" (Weapons of Mass Adoption)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:24 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-akash-network-with-greg-osuri/id1705930764?i=1000626951051
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-09-06-the-invisible-50-cloud-tax-y7l5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The invisible 50% cloud tax," "\#3 - Akash Network with Greg Osuri" (Weapons of Mass Adoption), 6 Sept 2023, 00:14:24. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-akash-network-with-greg-osuri/id1705930764?i=1000626951051

## Quote — verbatim

> Anderson Horowitz wrote a very thorough, thoughtful research piece... they pointed out over 50% of the margins that these online services get goes to a cloud provider. Like, if you use Dropbox or Asana or Netflix, 50% of the payment on 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

Citing a16z's "The Cost of Cloud" piece while explaining supercloud economics and BigQuery/Aurora lock-in.