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 …

vLLM Production Stack on Amazon EKS with Terraform๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿš€

Intro Deploying vLLM manually is fine for a lab, but running it in production means dealing with Kubernetes, autoscaling, GPU orchestration, and observability. Thatโ€™s where the vLLM Production Stack comes in – a Terraform-based blueprint that delivers production-ready LLM serving with enterprise-grade foundations. In this post, we’ll deploy it on Amazon EKS, covering everything from …