Azure CDN vs Storage vs Media Services and Streaming Units

Hello,
Quite new to Azure and these services and after much poking around cannot quite find the answer to my question so I'm writing it here. I have a video that I have uploaded under storage but one cannot access that through the listed URL. So under
Media Services I created a new Media Service and if you look under Content you can find the URL for the video which I have published.
So, I then under configuration for this Media Service went under Streaming Capacity and turned it up to streaming capacity 1 unit = 200mbps at $4.50 per day. Which seems expensive for just wanting one video to be available on demand.
So I'm needing some help. I created some CDNs but not sure what they do and if they should be connected to my video. All I know is that it is costing me over $5 day to have one 47MB be available to play as soon as the user clicks on the link on
my page. This seems ridiculous. What am I doing wrong? How do I use the CDN, or the Media Services and if I'm just serving up one video do I need the 200mbps? I understand the idea of guaranteed bandwidth.... but some discussion on
this would help greatly. Thanks in advance for any discussion on this.

Hi Paul,
Streaming capacity doesn't only provides guaranteed bandwidth, but also enabled additional features such as dynamic packaging and dynamic encryption. If your intent is only stream one video file and just use progressive download, I would recommend you to
use directly storage SAS URLs and bypass streaming end-point. Streaming-end point with streaming capacity will provide you adaptive streaming and the additional feature.
To use storage URLs directly, you can just upload your video file using Azure portal and publish which will create a storage SAS URL. The URL should include blobcore in the URL. To integrate CDN for this URL, you should use CDN tab and integrate CDN
for the corresponding storage account.
Thanks,
Cenk

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