[dageroth]

If you are hosting paid video content then you probably don't have so many people accessing your content simultaneously, so hosting it yourself is not that difficult? I rented two servers at hetzner.de a few years ago.

49 Euros per month, 5 GB of streaming included, afterwards 6,90 per TB. As a streaming server Wowza is offering great software and service, the license was less than a 1000 $. With this setup you can get away for less than a hundred Euros per month and stream 10 terrabytes from two machines and can add easily more machines, when necessary, or use AWS as a fallbacksystem for trafficspikes. Beats pure AWS-Hosting by a wide, wide margin, at least it did for us...