Service Lifecycle in the Cloud Environment

Cloud governance´s approach to development in the cloud environment allows for a way in which services are well defined and unambiguous, where they can be easily designed, implemented, deployed and executed, for a way in which they can be consumed. This approach is beneficial to SMEs which can now empower themselves by adopting cloud-based technologies and platforms. They now have the opportunity to develop niche solutions, or to group themselves in specialized clusters, in order to build complex, targeted solutions, tailored on customers´ needs. The focus of this paper is detailing the service lifecycle from the point of view of our proposed cloud governance architecture that is based on a cloud management solution, the Cloud Agency, a multi-agent system that is part of the mOSAIC project.