vLLM on EKS: Cut LLM Storage Costs by 95% with S3 Mountpoint
Intro When scaling AI models like DeepSeek or Qwen on Amazon EKS, engineering teams obsess over GPU utilization while quietly bleeding money on storage bloat. Because standard EBS volumes force a 1:1 replica-to-disk ratio, scaling a single 70GB model to 20 pods doesn’t cost 70GB, it forces you to provision 1.4 Terabytes of redundant EBS …
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