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2 Cloud Computing management

1 Scope
This Recommendation specifies the functional requirements of end-to-end (E2E) cloud service lifecycle
management. This Recommendation comprises the following:
– cloud service lifecycle metadata;
– cloud service lifecycle management framework;
– cloud service lifecycle management stages;
– relationship with cloud computing reference architecture;

– functional requirements and typical use cases of cloud service lifecycle management.

2 References

The following ITU-T Recommendations and other references contain provisions which, through reference in
this text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation. At the time of publication, the editions indicated
were valid. All Recommendations and other references are subject to revision; users of this Recommendation
are therefore encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of the
Recommendations and other references listed below. A list of the currently valid ITU-T Recommendations is
regularly published. The reference to a document within this Recommendation does not give it, as a stand-
alone document, the status of a Recommendation.

[ITU-T M.3030] Recommendation ITU-T M.3030 (2002), Telecommunications Markup Language
(tML) framework.

[ITU-T X.1601] Recommendation ITU-T X.1601 (2015), Security framework for cloud computing.
[ITU-T Y.3500] Recommendation ITU-T Y.3500 (2014) | ISO/IEC 17788:2014, Information
technology – Cloud computing – Overview and vocabulary.
[ITU-T Y.3502] Recommendation ITU-T Y.3502 (2014) | ISO/IEC 17789:2014, Information
technology – Cloud computing – Reference architecture.
[ITU-T Y.3511] Recommendation ITU-T Y.3511 (2014), Framework of inter-cloud computing.

[ITU-T Y.3520] Recommendation ITU-T Y.3520 (2015), Cloud computing framework for end to end
resource management.

[ITU-T Y.3521] Recommendation ITU-T Y.3521/M.3070 (2016), Overview of end-to-end cloud
computing management.

3 Definitions

3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
This Recommendation uses the following terms defined elsewhere:
3.1.1 cloud computing [ITU-T Y.3500]: Paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool
of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand.
NOTE – Examples of resources include servers, operating systems, networks, software, applications and storage
equipment.
3.1.2 cloud service [ITU-T Y.3500]: One or more capabilities offered via cloud computing invoked using a
defined interface.
3.1.3 cloud service customer [ITU-T Y.3500]: Party which is in a business relationship for the purpose of
using cloud services.
NOTE – A business relationship does not necessarily imply financial agreements.

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