An administrator of a credit card company needs to ensure that private cloud resources are allocated effectively, but needs to utilize the agility of the public cloud during peak seasons. Which of…

Cloud bursting lets an organization keep its primary workloads on a cost-controlled private cloud and automatically overflow to public cloud resources only when private capacity is exceeded during peak seasons. This hybrid approach avoids over-provisioning private infrastructure while still meeting spikes in demand without manual intervention. It is the specific mechanism designed to combine the cost efficiency of private cloud with the on-demand scalability of the public cloud.

Elasticity refers to a single cloud environment's ability to scale resources dynamically up or down, but does not describe the specific mechanism of extending from a private cloud into a public cloud.

Multi-tenancy is an architecture where multiple customers share the same underlying infrastructure, which is unrelated to extending private cloud capacity into the public cloud during peak demand.

Self-service provisioning allows users to provision cloud resources on demand without administrator involvement, but does not address automatic overflow from a private cloud to a public cloud.