Working with Service Configuration Specifications
Service Configuration specifications capture the details about the resources used by the service. Because these details can change frequently, service configurations provide a versioning capability that enables the management of the changes to a service over time. As the facts about a service changes over time, new versions of the service configuration can be created.
When you define a Service Configuration specification in Design Studio, you determine the collection of resources that can be assigned to the service. You define these resources as configuration items. The configuration items can have characteristics that enable you to express details about the configuration. The configuration items can be arranged hierarchically. See "Working with Configurations" for more information.
When working with Service Configuration specifications, see the following topics: