Can you say which PaaS they are using? It's hard to believe any modern PaaS doesn't have video delivery included as an option of some sort.
FYI we use Vimeo to serve about a million views a month, for $20/mo. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.
FYI we use Vimeo to serve about a million views a month, for $20/mo. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.
If you need to be able to charge PPV or per month or whatever, Vimeo also offers a billable solution: https://vimeo.com/ott/pricing (OTT is apparently "over-the-top", as in PPV that bypasses cable/satellite/etc... according to wikipedia. Must be a cable-era term.) There are a bunch of other providers in this space... here is one list by a company: https://www.dacast.com/blog/how-does-white-label-video-strea...
Or you might be able to API-integrate Cloudflare Stream (or a similarly low-level CDN offering) with the LMS system directly, if they offer such interconnects.
My guess is that ease of use would probably get you a better ROI than strong piracy protections in this case and it's probably not worth it to go for DRM or rental models? IMHO only.