In order that the advantages of the invention will be readily understood, a more particular description of the invention briefly described above will be rendered by reference to specific embodiments that are illustrated in the appended drawings. Understanding that these drawings depict only typical embodiments of the invention and are not therefore to be considered to be limiting of its scope, the invention will be described and explained with additional specificity and detail through the use of the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting an exemplary cloud computing node according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an additional block diagram depicting an exemplary cloud computing environment according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an additional block diagram depicting abstraction model layers according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is an additional block diagram depicting various user hardware and cloud computing components for an intelligent application management system in accordance with aspects of the present invention;

FIG. 5A-5B is an additional block diagram depicting operations for intelligent application management and decommissioning in which aspects of the present invention may be realized; and

FIG. 6 is a flowchart diagram depicting an exemplary method for providing intelligent application management by a processor; again, in which aspects of the present invention may be realized.