# Akash: four years, zero unplanned downtime; AWS down \~200 times a year

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-12-06
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:50 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=830s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2024-12-06-akash-four-years-zero-unplanned-downtime-aws-down-wije/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash: four years, zero unplanned downtime; AWS down \~200 times a year," Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari), 6 Dec 2024, 00:13:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=830s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash has been alive for about four years; it has not gone down a single time. Whereas if you look at networks like Amazon Web Services, it goes down about 200 times a year... The reason why Akash is incredibly reliable is because there's not a single company or a single cluster that controls the network, but rather a distributed network of nodes that interact with each other in a peer-to-peer manner without a central point of failure.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Reliability argument; he pairs it with the CrowdStrike incident and an anecdote of an Akash auth exploit fixed by an open-source user before anyone was impacted ("fault tolerance, not fault avoidance").