# The 2017 whitepaper called it: cloud hyper-centralization is failing

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-12-03
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:50 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=350s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2025-12-03-the-2017-whitepaper-called-it-cloud-hyper-centrali-l2hq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The 2017 whitepaper called it: cloud hyper-centralization is failing," The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI), 3 Dec 2025, 00:05:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA3IAr9sc4&t=350s

## Quote — verbatim

> AWS went down four times, took almost all the internet with it. It causes such a disruption every time a data center goes down that it's almost like decentralization sells for itself.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He precedes this by quoting his own 2017 paper: "the cloud is getting hyper inefficient, hyper centralized — we're going to start seeing problems with stability, with prices and accessibility. And look what happened now."