Deploying Hugging Face Models to AWS: A Complete Guide with CDK, SageMaker, and Lambda
🎯 Introduction Deploying machine learning models to production is a complex challenge that goes far beyond training a model. When working with large models from Hugging Face—whether it’s image generation, text-to-image synthesis, or other AI tasks—you need robust infrastructure that handles: Scalability: Auto-scaling to handle variable loads from 0 to thousands of concurrent requests Cost Efficiency: Paying only for what you use while maintaining performance Reliability: 99.9%+ uptime with proper error handling and monitoring Security: Protecting models, data, and API endpoints Observability: Comprehensive logging, metrics, and tracing This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to deploy a Hugging Face model to AWS using infrastructure as code (CDK with TypeScript), combining SageMaker for model hosting and Lambda for API orchestration.