Adding Amazon environments
An environment defines the computing, storage, and network resources available for a virtual machine. An Amazon environment can be an EC2 Availability Zone or a VPC subnet. The network resources defined for the environment must include at least one network. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management does not require a management network for an Amazon environment.
Environments are also called logical hosting environments. In Quick Start an environment is essentially a logical hosting environment with some other information added.
The Amazon Environments page lists all currently defined Amazon environments.
To begin defining an environment, click Add New 
. The New Environment page opens.
Note
Until you finish providing network information for an environment, the Amazon Environments page shows the environment you define on the New Environment page but the Status column for the new environment shows a Continue button 
. Click Continue to display the Networks page for that environment.
End-to-end Quick Start process
For a complete description of the Quick Start process for Amazon, see Provisioning-VMs-on-Amazon-using-Quick-Start.
Recovering from a failure
If the operation to create an Amazon environment fails, artifacts from the operation may persist within BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. To ensure that Quick Start is functioning smoothly, you can perform a cleanup procedure.