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Fast model loading for AI inference on Amazon EKS

calendar_today September 1, 2026 person Sajjan Gundapuneedi domain amazon-eks

When you scale AI inference on Amazon EKS, every new pod must load model weights into GPU memory before serving traffic. We investigated where cold-start time goes and found two configuration-only changes to Run:ai Model Streamer that cut model startup time by 80-93% on subsequent launches, with no code changes.

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