Organizations and environments

An organization contains members and one or more environments. An environment defines a cloud provider, management type, region, applications, credentials, studios, and resources.

Create a Managed Environment

Create a managed CLOUDflex environment

Open Organization Settings.
Under Environments, select Create Environment.
Enter a name that identifies the account, region, or production boundary.
Select AWS as the cloud provider.
Choose Managed.
Select the AWS region.
Select Create.

Create a Self-Hosted AWS Environment

In a self-hosted environment, CLOUDflex operates resources in your organization’s AWS account. Before creating the environment, complete the AWS Self-Hosted Prerequisites. You need the access key ID and secret for the dedicated IAM identity during environment creation.

After completing the prerequisites:

Open Organization Settings.
Under Environments, select Create Environment.
Enter a name that identifies the AWS account, region, or production boundary.
Select AWS as the cloud provider.
Choose Self-hosted.
Select the AWS region.
Enter the access key ID and secret for the dedicated IAM identity.
Select Create.

Supported AWS Regions

Supported regions shown in the staged UI are us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, me-central-1, me-south-1, ca-central-1, ap-southeast-1, and ap-southeast-2.