Akash Network provides an innovative marketplace for the buying and selling of cloud computing services. The network claims to offer various advantages over centralized cloud service providers, including higher transparency and lower costs. With such advantages, Akash Network aims to compete with its centralized counterparts. Akash Network has also partnered with various projects such as Kava and Polygon on its journey to realizing a truly decentralized Internet. Nonetheless, Akash Network is still new to the cloud computing world, and only time will tell if this decentralized cloud solution can outshine its centralized counterparts.