Cloud bursting is a hybrid cloud strategy that allows businesses to extend their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud during periods of high demand. Here are its key application scenarios with examples:
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Seasonal Traffic Spikes
- Scenario: E-commerce platforms experience sudden traffic surges during holidays like Black Friday or Singles' Day.
- Example: A retailer uses on-premises servers for regular operations but bursts to the cloud during peak sales periods to handle increased web traffic and transactions.
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Big Data Processing
- Scenario: Companies need to analyze large datasets (e.g., customer behavior or IoT sensor data) that exceed local compute capacity.
- Example: A financial institution processes terabytes of transaction logs daily but leverages cloud bursting for complex analytics during quarterly reporting.
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Disaster Recovery & Backup
- Scenario: On-premises systems fail, and immediate compute resources are required to maintain operations.
- Example: A healthcare provider uses cloud bursting to quickly spin up virtual machines in the cloud if its local data center goes offline due to a hardware failure.
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Software Development & Testing
- Scenario: Development teams require temporary high-performance environments for testing new applications.
- Example: A software company uses on-premises servers for daily coding but bursts to the cloud for load testing or running multiple parallel test environments.
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AI/ML Workloads
- Scenario: Training machine learning models demands significant GPU resources that are not always available locally.
- Example: An autonomous vehicle company trains AI models on-premises but uses cloud bursting for large-scale model retraining when new data is collected.
For cloud bursting solutions, Tencent Cloud offers flexible hybrid cloud services like Tencent Cloud Hybrid Cloud Solution and Tencent Cloud CVM (Cloud Virtual Machine), enabling seamless scaling between on-premises and cloud environments.