Oracle is adding new options to its public cloud infrastructure that provide better flexibility, including a flexible load balancer.

Microsoft, Google and Amazon all reported their final sets of financial earnings for the 2020 calendar year, with each showing significant public cloud gains.

Also announced at the Open Infrastructure Summit was the OpenStack Victoria open source cloud platform, with improved integration with Kubernetes and enhanced IPv6 support.

The Kubernetes architecture is evolving--as are the market and ecosystem surrounding the technology.

Automation tooling in the AWS cloud is helping civics education provider iCivics scale with limited resources as demand grows during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Kubernetes architecture is a good fit for web-scale organizations, but it may be overkill (and overcomplicated) for others.

While the major cloud providers are making more money thanks to a surge in cloud usage, Amazon's CFO emphasized that a key focus now is to help users save money and utilize only the services they need.