A year after launching VPU-accelerated instances on Akamai Cloud, what has actually changed? In this episode of Voices of Video, Sarah Walter from Akamai joins us for a real-world check-in on adoption, scale, and where video infrastructure is heading next. Customers are rethinking the cloud. Not because they want to go back on-prem, but because traditional cloud cost models are breaking at scale. The result is a shift toward something in between: infrastructure that keeps cloud flexibility while restoring economic control. We explore how NETINT VPUs on Akamai Cloud are enabling that shift, from global expansion without CapEx to high-density transcoding at a radically lower cost per stream. We also dig into what made this possible over the past year, including ecosystem maturity, the Bitstreams control panel lowering the barrier to entry, and the operational realities of running hardware in the cloud. From live streaming to VOD to hyperscaler expansion, this is what the next phase of video infrastructure actually looks like.