Deployment of distributed component-based applications is composed of a set of activities managed by a Deployment Infrastructure. Current applications are becoming increasingly more complex, requiring a multi-platform and a dynamic target environment. Thus, the planning activity is the most critical step because it defines the configuration of the execution infrastructure in order to satisfy the requirements of the application’s target environment. On the other hand, the cloud service model called Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers on-demand computational resources with dynamic, scalable, and elastic features. In this work we have extended the Deployment Infrastructure for SCS componentes to support private or public clouds as its target environment, through the use of a cloud API and flexible policies to specify a customized target environment. Additionally, we host the Deployment Infrastructure on the cloud, which allow us to use on-demand computational resources to instantiate Deployment Infrastructure services, creating an experimental Platform as a Service (PaaS).