1. A system comprising: at least one computing device of a cloud computing environment that comprises an operational space and a separate development space, the at least one computing device comprising at least one processor and memory; the at least one computing device configured to analyze, via analytics functions implemented by the at least one processor and memory, physical machine and virtual machine usage by instances of an application in the development space of the cloud computing environment, where each of the instances of the application are isolated from any other applications in the development and operational spaces of the cloud computing environment; and the at least one computing device further configured to configure, via instance and control functions implemented by the at least one processor and memory, a number of physical machines and virtual machines available to each of the instances of the application.