AWS User Group Seattle | AWSUGSEA

We will have two speakers, one, a familiar face, Justin Castilla, from ElasticSearch who will talk about Tracking Longterm Health with a Sympathetic Voice and Natalie Serebryakova, a new Seattle transplant, a Staff Cloud Engineer at IN-N-OUT.CLOUD, and an AWS Community Builder who will talk AWS EKS GPU Spot Recovery Operator for ML Workloads.

Tracking Longterm Health with a Sympathetic Voice
This talk will introduce developers to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) through a practical example that demonstrates how to build AI-powered applications that integrate Claude Desktop with external data sources like Elasticsearch. Attendees will learn core MCP concepts while exploring real-world implementation patterns like structured data validation, multi-step workflows, LLM-as-a-jury evaluation, and semantic search capabilities. Developers with basic Python and API experience will leave understanding how to create MCP servers that transform static data into interactive, AI-accessible resources, enabling new paradigms for user interaction in their own applications.

AWS EKS GPU Spot Recovery Operator for ML Workloads
In this session Natalie will be speaking about Kubernetes operator for AWS EKS that detects Spot interruptions on GPU nodes, triggers ML job checkpointing, and recovers training by rescheduling on available nodes. This I prepared with an idea to provide an interesting example of a repeatable workflow for maximizing GPU cost savings without losing progress on ML training jobs. The setup covered in this talk will include services AWS EventBridge, S3/EFS , IAM, and CloudWatch. Natalie will be presenting a live example to show node interruption handling, and seamless ML job recovery using my developed solution.

🍕 FOOD AND DRINKS PROVIDED🥤

** We'll be hosting it at the AWS Skills Center (across the street from its former location at the Amazon Kiro building).

Amazon Oscar building
1007 Stewart St
2nd floor
Seattle, WA 98101

Guests will go upstairs to the AWS Skills Center on 2nd floor. It’s directly up the stairs or elevator or they can use escalator and just follow floor signage to navigate to our entrance. They will check-in with our guest reception team and then be directed to the rooms. Even though the Skills Center closes at 5pm, they will be open for the user group.

As always we are looking for a few speakers for our next user group meetings, ping Rob Koch, Stephen Barr, or Souleymane Tiendrebeogo!