For all independent service providers (ISVs) and IT service providers, developing cloud-based services is becoming an essential business model in order to be at par with competitors and to keep infrastructure and operational cost optimal. The challenge here is two-fold: (1) developing, deploying, and maintaining services using cloud-based models form one part of the challenge; and (2) choosing the right set of infrastructure and application components and achieving a defined level of nonfunctional aspects is the other part.