# Everyone pays a hidden cloud tax

- **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:** 00:10:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esawduwv7AA&t=645s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-09-26-everyone-pays-a-hidden-cloud-tax-oqhr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Everyone pays a hidden cloud tax," AWS at a Fraction of the Price – Greg Osuri \| Akash Network (We are DePIN), 26 Sept 2024, 00:10:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esawduwv7AA&t=645s

## Quote — verbatim

> We all use a cloud and we all pay a cloud tax without realizing — somewhere north of 50% of every penny we pay to an online service goes to a cloud provider.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Arguing the AWS/Google/Microsoft oligopoly stifles competition; the quantified "north of 50%" cloud-tax figure is one of his recurring claims.