Before approving a new multi-account citizen-services architecture, council asks for an options memo with credible cost ranges. Which approach best supports that design decision?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Council wants numbers before the dig starts—Pricing Calculator for the blueprint, Cost Explorer lessons from cousins already in the cloud. Hand-waving until the bill explodes is not a design tool.
Full Explanation
AWS Pricing Calculator models candidate architectures before spend lands; Cost Explorer informs estimates using historical patterns from comparable municipal workloads. Design-phase cost analysis is part of Task 2.6 strategy, not a post-overrun activity. Anecdotes and opaque single-cell guesses lack the service-level assumptions governance needs.