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. Cloud burst is a positive and negative phenomenon that defines a cloud infrastructure'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's inability to efficiently manage resource requirements.
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.
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