Akash is an open source cloud platform that allows you to quickly deploy Docker containers from the command line to your cloud provider of choice for less than the cost of AWS. Akash host container, users can run any cloud native application. There's no need to rewrite the entire Internet with a new proprietary language, and no provider lock-in to prevent you from switching cloud providers. Deployment files are transmitted over a private peer-to-peer network that is isolated from the blockchain. Asset migration is done down the chain via mTLS to provide the security and performance required by mission-critical applications running on the cloud.

Akash market is user deployed Akash container platform on dockworker container leasing prior to computing resources from cloud provider. The market uses Akash tokens (AKT) to store on-chain records of requests, bids, leases, and settlement payments. Akash's blockchain is a Tendermint-based app, based on the Cosmos SDK.

Akash container platform is a container for hosting and managing the deployment platform, and users can run any cloud native application. Akash builds a set of cloud management services, including Kubernetes for orchestrating and managing containers.