Tax season spikes overwhelm on-premises capacity, and the county wants temporary overflow into the public cloud until demand drops. Which approach describes that pattern?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Cloud bursting is the overflow valve on a water heater—when tax season pressure spikes, extra work spills into public cloud, then settles back. The county keeps its private baseline and borrows peak capacity. That is not the same as moving everything permanently or renting empty cold-site floor space.
Full Explanation
Cloud bursting is a hybrid pattern in which workloads overflow from private or on-premises capacity into public cloud during demand spikes, then retract when load declines. It differs from a full public-cloud migration, from cold-site facility planning, and from always-on multi-region capacity. Tax-season overflow is a classic bursting use case for municipal systems.