Whenever you're ready, walk me through how you'd approach this.
Explain your approach to selecting cloud-native AI services versus building custom components.
Discuss how you would make the decision for an end-to-end ML system without assuming a specific cloud provider, product, workload, or scale. Address requirements discovery, technical and organizational tradeoffs, service evaluation, integration boundaries, and an incremental adoption strategy. Explain how you would validate the choice through offline evaluation, production monitoring, cost analysis, and failure-mode testing.