Embodiments disclose systems, methods and computer program products to perform an operation for sharing artifacts between instances of an application deployed in a cloud computing environment. The operation generally includes upon determining, during staging of the application, that a set of artifacts are not available for instances of the application to share in the cloud computing environment, generating the set of artifacts via a first application instance, storing the set of artifacts, and requesting a re-staging of the application. The operation also includes during the re-staging of the application, generating a file for deploying scaled instances of the application and packing the stored set of artifacts into the generated file via a second application instance. The operation further includes executing an instance scale out of the application with the generated file comprising the stored set of artifacts.