1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a device of a cloud computing environment, information associated with one or more computing resources of a local portion of the cloud computing environment; receiving, by the device and from a global allocator device, a request for placement of a computing resource element at a selected computing resource of the one or more computing resources; determining, by the device and based on the information, whether the request can be satisfied by the selected computing resource; placing, by the device, the requested computing resource element in the selected computing resource when the request can be satisfied by the selected computing resource; and sending, by the device and to the global allocator device, a message indicating that the requested computing resource element has been successfully placed in the selected computing resource.