Oracle Cloud Free Tier

“Still great value though, have my app's website and associated infra on one of those 4CPU/24GB in "pay-as-you-go" mode and never ever reached the paying threshold.”

“In Oracle Cloud’s PAYGO always free tier you get 4x6GB vps you can run managed kubernetes on.”

“Oracle doesn't charge for IOPS on OCI the way AWS would for an Oracle instance”

“I have a proxy set up with the Oracle Always Free VMs they provide. It works well enough.”

“they built datacenters in cities that are not served by other cloud providers and can thus offer the lowest latency”

“If you take a service that you told someone was "always free" and start charging them for that, that's a lie.”

“it's literally free... and it's still free. Compare the new 2vCPU/12GB RAM offering to Linode, Vultr, DigitalOcean, ec. It's still incredibly generous.”

“far and away the most awful cloud related UI of any variety I've ever used”

“still massively more "generous" than what any other cloud provider gives you for free.”

“I've been using my full quota of free resources for 3+ years without an issue and I'm grateful for having a place to run various non-commercial services”

“I've had several permanent Arm-VPSes running in OCI for almost 4 years, without paying a single cent.”

“it always went to some sort of verification that after some time ended up in a rejection with no follow up process”

“their tendency to delete accounts haphazardly with no obvious pattern”

“have straight up idled the instances for months at a time and never been deprovisioned”

“I am a PAYG user since 2021 and have not experienced any reclamation issues.”

“eventually got tired of trying to get their cloud to actually provision me any of these supposed free ARM systems”

“oracle will literally tear down your always free resources if you are idling them”

“Neither of these limitations apply on the PAYG tier”

“OCI is just technically better than every other cloud, always was. And cheaper.”

“I've been running instances for many years and never had an issue spinning a new one up.”

“I did not get any notification that this was changing, nor that they would be terminating my instances”

“can they reduce my nice free VM to 32k of ram and a 1/1000 of a core”

“recently they downgraded the always free OCI ARM instance from 4C24G to 2C12G without telling anyone”

“Similar experience. It was surreal coming from the (relatively) simple waters of Azure and Digital Ocean.”

“Sick that you can get 2 arm cores and 12 GB ram for free at Oracle cloud”

“their free tier is (even after the cut) so much generous than other providers”

“They might have decided to try their luck and see how many people will fall victim to their scummy tactics of not informing the users.”

“The lack of warning should make this illegal, but I don't fancy taking on Oracle's fleet of lawyers”

“I've been doing that for years: free tier Oracle VPS purely as an SSL termination+WireGuard endpoint”

“Oracle provides one of the most generous free limits compared to GCP, AWS and Azure”

“Oracle Cloud isn't actually "terrible cloud", but it definitely isn't geared toward smaller users like startups and individuals.”

“Overall we reduced our cloud spend (even accounting for the additional staff) by about 40%.”

“I would never give oracle a cent of my money but when they are offering 26gb of compute in always-free tier I'll take every bit of it”

“it appears you're hosting on Oracle Cloud, so Cloudflare would also give you free data egress”

“hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier (4 cpu, 24GB ram)”

“But it worked for me and I've been using it for more than 2 years now.”

“I've not received any threats of shutoff over the last 3 years I've had them online.”

“oracle will threaten to turn off your instance if you don’t maintain a reasonable average CPU usage on the free hosts”

“I just cut my Hetzner bill by $4/mo by moving my Umami box to one of the free Oracle Cloud VPS”

“Even things that are oddly expensive on AWS - like NAT - are free on Oracle.”