{"id":11620,"date":"2011-10-11T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/cloud-burst\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T07:46:29","slug":"cloud-burst","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/26438\/cloud-burst","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Burst"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_cloud_burst_mean\">What Does Cloud Burst Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cloud burst is a quality of service (QoS) metric used to gauge cloud solution scalability and measure software application capability and performance on hosted cloud platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Cloud application and service vendors provide benchmark performance ratios for total leased infrastructure and ensure maximized application hosting. However, a well-designed, scalable, flexible and reliable architecture easily handles network traffic and computing requirements, while a poorly-designed architecture will falter when subjected to resource-hungry applications.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as cloud bursting. <\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_cloud_burst\">Techopedia Explains Cloud Burst<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cloud burst can be either a positive and negative phenomenon that defines a cloud infrastructure&#8217;s ability to handle traffic and computing surges. A positive cloud burst refers to a cloud-based application or infrastructure platform that efficiently and capably manages cloud-hosted application scalability. A negative cloud burst refers to a cloud-based application or infrastructure&#8217;s inability to efficiently manage resource requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The term can also refer to a situation in a hybrid cloud where there is a burst of data and the application scales from the private to the public cloud. 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