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.