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# Create an Environment in Business Manager

Environments separate your production storefront from other storefronts for development and testing. Environments are hosted in Managed Runtime. The Storefront Next setup flow in Business Manager creates an environment for the new storefront. Admins can also create more environments for the storefront in Business Manager. Environments created in Business Manager are behind an embedded content delivery network (eCDN).

**note:** To create an environment in the Developer Workspace (Beta), see [Manage Storefront Next Environments in Business Manager (Beta)](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/guide/sfnext-environments.md).

To create an environment:

1. In Business Manager, click App Launcher ![App Launcher](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/media/sfnext/shared/appLauncher.png) and then select **Administration > Sites > Storefronts**, and then click your storefront.
2. In the storefront detail page, in the Environments section, click **Create**.
3. Enter the environment name.
   The environment creation process starts. The environment status is updated to `Ready` after the environment is created. The system assigns a default region to your environment based on the region that's closest to your site. <!-- Double check -->

   ![Create an environment in Business Manager](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/media/sfnext/sfnext-env-list.png)

4. Click **Create**.

**note:** - The default region for new environments is US East (N. Virginia) because it's located closest to on-demand sandboxes, which are commonly associated with development and testing environments.
- If you previously created an environment, you can [Edit Environment Settings](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/guide/sfnext-mrt-administration.md#edit-environment-settings) to connect it to a B2C Commerce instance and one or more site IDs.
- Production and non-production environments receive the same resources. All environments automatically scale to handle traffic in the same way. For details, see [Environments](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/guide/sfnext-mrt-overview.md#environments).

## See Also

- [Managed Runtime Overview](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/guide/sfnext-mrt-overview.md)
- [Managed Runtime Administration](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/guide/sfnext-mrt-administration.md)
- [Default Security Rules on On-Demand Sandbox (ODS) Instances](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/commerce/pwa-kit-managed-runtime/guide/sfnext-ods-security-rules.md)