As an application delivery technique, cloud bursting enables the best of both worlds to be combined. On the one hand, it allows running an application in a private data center, with known, fixed investment costs, complete control over the environments and organizational expertise to run them.
On the other hand, it is used in a public cloud that is available on demand and has almost unlimited resources. This means you only pay for additional resources when you need them. In short, this means that cloud bursting is a hybrid cloud delivery model that works in a similar way to "pay-as-you-go", i.e. costs only arise as more resources are consumed.
This model gives IT teams access to technology relevant to their project despite the lack of operational knowledge. This is especially true for database services, which are notoriously difficult to configure and manage. The type of architecture required to support cloud bursting does not necessarily depend on the application, but rather on its architecture. The ideal architecture for this concept of application delivery technology is loosely coupled and independent, so that the components communicating between the private data center and the public cloud do not have to transfer large amounts of data between them and can tolerate unpredictable latencies.
IT security challenge
Cloud bursting brings with it numerous challenges, the most important of which are the impact on IT security and data protection. In order to guarantee the IT security of the networks, companies must set up encrypted routes between the data center and the cloud components. In addition, the dynamic nature of cloud bursting leads to a proliferation of machine identities. In the cloud, the only thing that separates it from another cloud and authenticates it to the data center is the respective machine identity. For this reason, companies need to set up a control plane to automate the management of machine identities. This provides IT teams with the observability, consistency, and reliability they need to effectively manage their machine identities.
In addition, it is equally important to be aware of different configurations – the way infrastructure is deployed and configured differs between data centers and the cloud. The types of virtual machines available, the hypervisor they run on, and networking are likely to vary. As a result, IT teams must support multiple configurations for the same application. In addition, there are other issues such as data transfer fees, as cloud providers often charge for data ingress and egress.
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