Packaging and deploying algorithms for flexible machine learning

A system comprising:

• a storage service implemented by a first one or more electronic devices;
• and
• a machine learning service implemented by a second one or more electronic devices, the machine learning service including instructions that upon execution cause the machine learning service to:
• receive a request to train a machine learning (ML) model on behalf of a user, the request at least identifying training data stored within the storage service that is to be used to train the ML model;
• and
• train the ML model using the training data, wherein to train the ML model the instructions cause the machine learning service to perform one or more operations within a container hosted by the machine learning service and to store a representation of one or more model artifacts generated as a result of training the ML model to the storage service.