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Salesforce reduces AI inference infrastructure costs up to 8x with Amazon SageMaker AI inference components
Salesforce's AI Platform team faced two GPU underutilization problems: large models (20–30 GB) with low traffic patterns ran on expensive multi-GPU instances mostly idle, while medium models (~15 GB) handling high-traffic workloads were over-provisioned on similarly expensive multi-GPU setups, both driving avoidable infrastructure cost.
How it works
Common implementation structure
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Stage 1 · Identify GPU underutilization
Salesforce identified two distinct optimization challenges: larger models underutilizing multi-GPU instances and medium high-traffic models over-provisioned on similar setups.
Tools used
Amazon SageMaker AIAmazon EC2 P4dCodeGenXGenApexGuru
Outcome
By deploying multiple models as inference components on shared SageMaker AI endpoints with dynamic scaling, Salesforce achieved up to an eight-fold reduction in deployment and infrastructure costs while maintaining high performance.
Results
Volumesubstantial reduction in operational cost
Cost replacedup to an eight-fold reduction
Grounding & classification
Source type: technical build writeup
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