You pay for bandwidth on AWS. In the Netflix scenario, the ISPs sitting between your service and your customers would be demanding that you pay them for using t

You pay for bandwidth on AWS. In the Netflix scenario, the ISPs sitting between your service and your customers would be demanding that you pay them for using their bandwidth. The only difference between you and Netflix is that they are AWS with all of the interconnect and overhead costs, while you get to pay a third party to abstract all of that complexity away for what is essentially a management fee.