$What If the Future of Cloud Looked Nothing Like AWS? Fluence Has an Answer.
Once upon a time, “the cloud” meant handing your data over to Big Tech; AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
They stored it.
They ran your apps.
They set the rules.
You paid whatever they asked.
But what if there was another way?🤔💭
Evgeny Ponomarev, co-founder of Fluence🧑💼, sat down for an interview with BeinCrypto that quietly revealed a cloud revolution in motion
Think: Uber or Airbnb but instead of rides or rooms, you’re renting compute power from a decentralized network.
Here are the key points from the interview:
Who is it for?
Mainly Web3 projects right now like node operators and infra builders.
But anyone can use it: game servers, databases, websites — you name it.
And soon: AI devs, once GPU support launches.
The real magic is:
✅ No middlemen.
✅ No inflated cloud margins.
✅ You pay directly for the hardware.
Why does this matter?🤷
Because decentralization isn’t just about tokens.
If your dApp runs on AWS… is it really decentralized?😕
Fluence lets you run backends on a P2P compute network.
Same developer UX, just without the central choke points.
The role of $FLT?
As simple as:
👉 Hardware providers stake it to join.
👉 If they fail to deliver uptime, they get slashed.
👉 If they succeed, they get rewarded.
It’s skin in the game for real infrastructure, not speculation.
Soon, $FLT might even unlock loans for hardware letting providers scale fast.
What about enterprises?
They want:
👉 SLAs
👉 Certifications (SOC 2, ISO)
👉 Fiat payments
Fluence is building all of it while keeping the system DAO-governed and fully open-source.
Final gem from Evgeny:
“Cloud platforms charge you for their brand. We charge for the hardware, nothing more.”
That’s the revolution.
Fluence is already onboarding Web3 infra projects and preparing for the AI wave.
Here’s my question to you:
If AWS went down tomorrow, could your favorite dApp survive?