# Cloud is a public utility that must be decentralized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-26
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AWS at a Fraction of the Price – Greg Osuri \| Akash Network (We are DePIN)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:32 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esawduwv7AA&t=692s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-09-26-cloud-is-a-public-utility-that-must-be-decentraliz-2cbp/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud is a public utility that must be decentralized," AWS at a Fraction of the Price – Greg Osuri \| Akash Network (We are DePIN), 26 Sept 2024, 00:11:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esawduwv7AA&t=692s

## Quote — verbatim

> Cloud is ultimately a public utility that should not be closed off and they should not be this opaque, and that's the reason why you want to decentralize a cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Capping his critique of centralized providers, referencing the CrowdStrike outage that "got the planet to a standstill" as proof of centralized fragility.