Global Delivery & Regional Readiness Checklist

A one-page checklist to work through before taking a streaming service into a new region: map where viewers really are and which regions are long-tail for you, choose the per-region delivery tactic that keeps bytes closest (anycast/GeoDNS, embedded ISP cache, IXP peering, regional/multi-CDN blend), separate the three geographies (delivery vs data residency under GDPR Ch. V / 242-FZ / PIPL vs rights geo-blocking), plan submarine-cable resilience, and the one sanity check that keeps a fast launch