That article is full of inaccuracies FYI. It took six years, not eight, and 95% of the transition was done in four years. Also, Netflix didn't always have its

That article is full of inaccuracies FYI. It took six years, not eight, and 95% of the transition was done in four years. Also, Netflix didn't always have its own CDN. We used Level3, Limelight, and Akamai to deliver video from 2010 until about 2012/13. And content is still stored in AWS. It's all rendered there and all the original copies are stored there. You are correct though that Netflix never delivered video bits to users via AWS, because it was cost prohibitive.