• TOSCA
• cloud applications
• management protocols
• resource management

Management protocols permit specifying the behaviour of management operations of multi-component applications. The goal of this thesis is to propose an extension of management protocols to model and analyse composite cloud application by taking into account resource consumption metrics based on cost models for IaaS. After analysing some recent research efforts detailing resource utilisation in IaaS, we define a resource-aware extension of management protocols that permits specifying and analysing the amount of resources needed to manage (the components of) a TOSCA application.