Infrastructure Finder
Answer questions about the workload, never about products, and arrive at a shape of infrastructure with its complexity, its cost and the simpler thing you should consider instead. All four are shown, always.
Start from the workload, never from a product. Each question below is about what the application actually does; the leaves name a shape of infrastructure and what it will cost you to run.
What is this workload, at its simplest?
How to answer honestly · Describe what it does in one sentence without naming any infrastructure. If the sentence needs a service name, you have not simplified enough yet.