Visual planning and assignment of cloud-based computing resources

A system for providing graphical user interfaces, the system comprising:

• a computer processor configured to run a web client application digitally connected with the computer processor, the web client application comprising:
• resource records comprising data fields corresponding to properties of a cloud service resource offered by a cloud server application;
• web objects that store a transaction-specific information for the cloud service resource;
• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by the processor, are configurable to cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising:
• requesting, from the cloud server application, transaction-specific information for a cloud service resource offered by the cloud server application, the requesting causing the cloud server application to send the transaction-specific information, wherein the transaction-specific information indicates the resources required to access the cloud service resource;
• receiving the transaction-specific information from the cloud server application;
• providing a platform-specific application programming interface (API) that identifies a part of the transaction-specific information as applicable for a resource utilization criterion related to the cloud service resource, wherein the resource utilization criterion comprises an availability in a geographical region, a resource size preference of a target user, and a resource category preference of the target user;
• selecting only the identified part of the transaction-specific information for displaying to the target user;
• and
• displaying the identified part of the transaction-specific information to the target user.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a processor, are configurable to cause said processor to perform operations comprising:

• requesting, from a cloud server application, transaction-specific information for a cloud service resource offered by the cloud server application, the requesting causing the cloud server application to send the transaction-specific information, wherein the transaction-specific information indicates the resources required to access the cloud service resource;
• receiving the transaction-specific information from the cloud server application;
• providing a platform-specific application programming interface (API) that identifies a part of the transaction-specific information as applicable for a resource utilization criterion related to the cloud service resource, wherein the resource utilization criterion comprises an availability in a geographical region, a resource size preference of a target user, and a resource category preference of the target user;
• selecting only the identified part of the transaction-specific information for displaying to the target user;
• and
• displaying the identified part of the transaction-specific information to the target user.