Incarnation selection for application hosting on remote services environment

One embodiment provides a computer implemented method, including: receiving an application including a plurality of services to be hosted on a remote services environment; obtaining, a resource profile identifying a usage of a resource by a given service of the plurality of services over a period of time; splitting, based upon the resource profile corresponding to a given service, the given service into a plurality of service slices; selecting, for each of the plurality of service slices an incarnation fulfilling a resource demand requirement and a service-performance-offering, wherein an incarnation has a total demand value based upon a resource capacity of a node at the remote services environment; and assigning, for each of the plurality of service slices the incarnation selected to at least one node within the remote services environment based upon the resource capacity of the at least one node.