1. A method comprising: defining a neutral format for cloud computing system requests and responses, the neutral format comprising attributes of an application programming interface between a client computer system and each of a plurality of different cloud computing systems; and providing, by a processing device, the application programming interface that exposes the neutral format to the client computer system to enable communication between the client computer system and the plurality of different cloud computing systems, wherein the application programming interface to provide an abstraction of cloud computing system parameters and functions for use by the client computer system during the communication with the plurality of different cloud computing system, wherein the parameters and the functions define the attributes of the application programming interface.