1. A system for providing service resources to support a service in a cloud computing environment, comprising: one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon; a cloud platform component provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, wherein the cloud platform component includes a first definition package for defining a service, and a second definition package for defining a provider to support the service; a service resource type in the cloud platform, wherein the service resource type is derived from the second definition package; wherein when the service is provisioned, the service resource type is configured to be associated with the service, and in response to associating the service resource type and the service, a service resource is created using the service resource type for use by one or more user applications deployed to the service.