# What AWS did for Amazon, Akash does for the world

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-05-20
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:52 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6niawECR8A&t=172s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-05-20-what-aws-did-for-amazon-akash-does-for-the-world-awzj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "What AWS did for Amazon, Akash does for the world," Hash Rate - Ep 050 - Akash Decentralized Cloud - Greg Osury (Hash Rate Podcast), 20 May 2024, 00:02:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6niawECR8A&t=172s

## Quote — verbatim

> What AWS did for Amazon is what Akash is doing for the rest of the world.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After the TurboTax/holiday-surge analogy: enterprises use ~5% of their capacity, and Akash monetizes the idle 95% just as Amazon monetized its post-dot-com overbuild.