In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method of performing application-specific assessment of hosting suitability of multiple clouds is disclosed. The method may include defining, in a synthetic application definition, a plurality of resource consumptions, wherein the plurality of resource consumptions are equivalent to consumptions by a candidate application. The method may further include consuming a first plurality of quantities of resources of a plurality of nodes of a first computing system and consuming a second plurality of quantities of resources of a plurality of nodes of a second computing system. The method may also include recording a performance of the first and second synthetic application, and comparing the first computing system and the second computing system based upon the first performance and the second performance. The present disclosure additionally includes associated systems and apparatuses.