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"We predicted that" — the 2017 white paper called the cloud's cost and reliability crisis

The Remote Work Tribe Podcast: Greg Osuri (The Remote Work Tribe Podcast)

“We noticed that cloud tooling has been not only getting extremely complicated, it’s getting extremely pricey… we prophesied saying that, look, if the cloud continues the way it is going, it’s going to lead to the massive reliability issues, massive cost issues, like we see today. I mean, people complain about AWS going down every other month… And we predicted that. We wrote a white paper. We published that in 2017.” — 00:01:40

Context: Recounting Overclock Labs’ founding thesis; he claims AWS “went down four times this month” (January 2026) as vindication.

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