# Akash: four years with zero downtime vs Amazon's \~200 outages a year

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-24
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Supercloud - by Greg Osuri, Akash (Cosmoverse)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:59 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmEVbRTw_5k&t=659s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-10-24-akash-four-years-with-zero-downtime-vs-amazon-s-20-7k5r/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash: four years with zero downtime vs Amazon's \~200 outages a year," The Supercloud - by Greg Osuri, Akash (Cosmoverse), 24 Oct 2024, 00:10:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmEVbRTw_5k&t=659s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash has been around for about four years and has not gone down a single time, and you can't say quite the same for networks like Amazon, where Amazon has reportedly about 200 outages on average per year.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Reliability argument for peer-to-peer architectures with no single point of failure; also claims up to 85% cost savings and GPUs at 1/4 hyperscaler cost.