# Cloud parity: moving Walmart off Amazon "in a few years"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:48 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=1548s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-06-09-cloud-parity-moving-walmart-off-amazon-in-a-few-ye-v3ng/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud parity: moving Walmart off Amazon "in a few years"," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network), 9 Jun 2024, 00:25:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=1548s

## Quote — verbatim

> The goal really is to get to cloud parity, in the sense, in a few years from now you should be able to go to Walmart or some large company and be like, hey, you can move all your stuff from Amazon to Akash. We're not there yet — we need to build a lot of capabilities.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Roadmap section of the keynote (reserved instances, managed backends, access control, secrets management as the gaps to close).