AI in the Cloud: Security, Serverless, and Cost Control

AI isn’t niche anymore—and the cloud put it in everyone’s hands. In this episode, we break down how AI at cloud scale is changing the game, why securing it is urgent, and practical ways to keep costs under control without slowing innovation.

You’ll learn:

• The big unlocks: real-time threat detection, anomaly spotting, personalization, and automated deployment at scale
• How serverless democratizes AI with thousands of concurrent functions—plus cloud-agnostic tools like Lithops to avoid lock-in
• Making stateless work for ML by using Redis as shared memory so algorithms like K-means can run across serverless functions
• Lock-based vs. lock-free designs—and when each approach is faster for clustering and other parallel workloads
• Why MLC Ops matters: protecting AI systems against data poisoning, adversarial inputs, model theft, and supply chain risks
• What regulations like the EU AI Act and US EO 12110 mean for businesses, with a focus on safety, privacy, fairness, and explainability
• Security best practices: model encryption, strict access control, data verification, confidential AI environments, and open source tools like Sigstore and SLSA
• The hidden costs of AI in the cloud—GPUs, storage, network egress, managed services, and idle resources
• Proven cost optimizations: spot/preemptible instances, checkpointing, storage tiering, model compression, efficient architectures, transfer learning, and a FinOps culture

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