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Centralized clouds vs Decentralised storage like Filecoin
Centralized clouds are amazing — but not perfect;
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure solved enormous problems:
- reliability
- global availability
- developer experience
- security
- billing
- support
They're incredible businesses.
But they also create:
- vendor lock-in
- bring pricing power
- concentration risk
- geopolitical risk
- censorship risk for certain datasets
- single-company dependency
Governments, universities, archives and AI companies increasingly care about these issues. Hell, even normal people do!
Where Decentralized storage like Filecoin makes sense are not "replace AWS." use-cases
They're things like:
- permanent archival storage
- scientific datasets
- public cultural archives
- AI training datasets
- decentralized applications
- blockchain state
- verifiable backups
- long-term preservation
Those are places where cryptographic proofs of storage are actually valuable
What other use cases do you see?
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