What Is Bursting?

If bursting is enabled for your non-metered subscription, then you can exceed your subscription capacity (with predefined resource limits) by 2 times the purchased number of resources. However, you are charged a higher, Pay-As-You-Go rate for the additional resources. This is also known as Bursting Up.

For example, if your non-metered subscription includes 4 OCPUs and bursting is enabled, then you can use up to 8 OCPUs (2 times the subscription capacity). You are charged for the extra resources per hour and billed monthly in arrears using the Pay-As-You-Go model.  Pricing for this increased capacity is based on the current Per Hour list price for a service at https://www.oracle.com.

In this way, bursting allows you to use additional capacity above your subscription limit without having to make a change to your base subscription. Bursting can be useful for situations where you need to temporarily increase capacity during the release of a new product.