Definition Edit

A hybrid cloud is a cloud infrastructure that is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load balancing between clouds).

Overview Edit

Figure 14 presents a simple view of a hybrid cloud that could be built with a set of clouds in the five deployment model variants.

Source Edit

• NIST Special Publication 500-292, at 12.

See also Edit

• Cloud computing