Adding an Amazon Web Services Profile

  1. In the menu, click Administration > Execution Environment.
  2. Click the Cloud Providers tab.
  3. Click New Profile. The New Cloud Provider Profile dialog box appears.
  4. Select Amazon Web Services from the Type list.
  5. In the Name field, enter a name for the profile. This name will be displayed in the list of profiles when creating a cloud-hosted execution server.
  6. Enter valid credentials to remotely access the cloud system in the Access Key and Secret Key fields.
  7. Region: Select the region in which you want to deploy your instance.
  8. Instance Type: The instance types that Amazon offers. This defines for example how much RAM and CPU power your instance will have. Note that this also has an impact on lease costs. For more information, visit the Amazon EC2 Instances page.
  9. Keep instance alive on connection error: Select true if you want the instance to stay alive when the connection between the application server and the cloud instance breaks.
  10. Click Test to perform a test connection to the cloud provider with the information that you have entered.
  11. Click OK to save your settings.