8. The method according claim 1 , further comprising providing a user interface for selecting a machine instance on which to perform the first task within the computing environment, and wherein the user interface comprises a dropdown menu, and wherein generating the list of one or more previous machine instances corresponding to the one or more similar tasks comprises displaying the list in the dropdown menu.
9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the user interface further comprises a user interface object associated with initiating instructions to commence a previous machine instance selected from the dropdown menu.