Option B best meets the requirement for reusable, versioned, and consistently governed components across multiple business units because it implements “platform-level standardization” through infrastructure as code plus automated compliance enforcement before deployment. Standardized CloudFormation templates provide reusable building blocks for security controls (identity, networking boundaries, encryption), observability practices (metrics, logs, traces), and RAG deployment patterns (knowledge base integration, ingestion pipelines, retrieval controls). This aligns with AWS guidance to operationalize well-architected patterns through repeatable templates rather than ad hoc implementations.
A centralized repository enables version control, change review, and governance of templates across all five business units. This satisfies the “versioned” and “reusable” requirements and provides a single source of truth for approved architectures. Integrating a CI/CD pipeline ensures that deployments are consistent and automated, reducing drift between business units and Regions.
CloudFormation Guard is most effective when used as a preventive control in the pipeline, not only after deployment. By running Guard rules during build or pre-deploy stages, the organization can enforce mandatory security and observability configurations and block noncompliant changes before they reach production. This supports consistent governance while still enabling business units to deploy quickly.
Option A performs compliance validation after deployment, which allows policy violations to be deployed first and remediated later. Option C provides governed provisioning but requiring console-based deployment reduces automation and can slow standardized CI/CD adoption; it also adds an additional governance layer that is not required to meet the stated needs. Option D is not enforceable and does not provide reusable, versioned, governed components.
Therefore, Option B provides the strongest, most scalable, and most consistently governed approach for standardized GenAI deployments across business units.
