System and method for cloud entity including service locking in a cloud platform environment

A method of providing service locking in a cloud computing environment, comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a plurality of services which can be used by applications within the cloud environment, wherein the services can be associated with and utilize resources;
• and
• providing a service locking component, which provides locking of a cloud entity or service's configuration or usage of resources, including
• determining a requested configuration or usage by each of the cloud entity, services of resources, and
• if the requested configuration is not allowed, or the usage by a particular cloud entity or service reaches an allocation of resources for that service, instructing the system to lock the cloud entity or service at its current configuration or usage of resources.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing, at a computer, a cloud environment that supports provisioning of enterprise applications;
• providing a plurality of services which can be used by applications within the cloud environment, wherein the services can be associated with and utilize resources;
• and
• providing a service locking component, which provides locking of a cloud entity or service's configuration or usage of resources, including
• determining a requested configuration or usage by each of the cloud entity, services of resources, and
• if the requested configuration is not allowed, or the usage by a particular cloud entity or service reaches an allocation of resources for that service, instructing the system to lock the cloud entity or service at its current configuration or usage of resources.