AI Governance in Practice: FastAPI on EKS with Model Cards, Audit Logging, and Helm

AI governance is increasingly a business requirement, not an afterthought. Whether it's the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, or an internal risk committee, the question is the same: can you prove your model is behaving as intended, on every request, with a documented audit trail? This post walks through an AI governance platform I built on AWS EKS: a FastAPI service that runs churn inference, records every prediction to an audit log, exposes a machine-readable model card, and packages everything into a...