Elastic Management of Compute Resources Between a Web Server and an On-Demand Compute Environment

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions to manage web traffic directed to a web server, the instructions comprising:

• receiving, at the on-demand compute environment, an indication that projected web traffic addressed to a web server should at least be partially served via the on-demand compute environment;
• assigning an agent to handle a portion of the projected web traffic to be served via the on-demand compute environment;
• provisioning compute resources within the on-demand compute environment to enable the on-demand compute environment to respond to the portion of the projected web traffic to yield provisioned compute resources;
• intercepting, via the agent, the portion of the projected web traffic received from a user;
• and
• redirecting, via the agent, the portion of the projected web traffic to be served by the provisioned compute resources such that redirecting is transparent to the user.

A system for redirecting web traffic to an on-demand compute environment, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a first module configured to control the processor to receive, at the on-demand compute environment, an indication that projected web traffic addressed to a web server should at least be partially served via the on-demand compute environment;
• a second module configured to control the processor to assign an agent to handle a portion of the projected web traffic to be served via the on-demand compute environment;
• and
• a third module configured to control the processor to provision compute resources within the on-demand compute environment to enable the on-demand compute environment to respond to the portion of the projected web traffic to yield provisioned compute resources,
• wherein the agent intercepts the portion of the projected web traffic received from a user and redirects the portion of the projected web traffic to be served by the provisioned compute resources such that redirecting is transparent to the user.