I get what you're saying about the benefits of PaaS or other managed services, but Netflix serves most content (by volume) off of appliances [1] they ship to IS

I get what you're saying about the benefits of PaaS or other managed services, but Netflix serves most content (by volume) off of appliances [1] they ship to ISPs that feed into the network at points-of-presence somewhere close to an edge. They use AWS for logic and compute (including transcoding [3]), but video streams from this globally-distributed CDN [2]. [1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ [2] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-with-isps-around-the-globe-to-deliver-a-great-viewing-experience https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-... [3] https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale-d159db052746 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/high-quality-video-encod...