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Oracle Cloud Free Tier
raindog308
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Announced today: https://www-zdnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/oracle-introduces-free-autonomous-database-and-cloud-services/
Haven't looked extensively at it, but some interesting things in the "always free" tier:
- Two virtual machines with 1/8 OPCU and 1 GB memory each.
- 2 databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage (but you'll need to learn to be an Oracle DBA :-)
- volumes with 100GB total, 10GB object, 10GB archive
- Load Balancer, 1 instance, 10 Mbps bandwidth.
- Monitoring, 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints.
- Notifications, 1 million delivery options per month, 1,000 emails sent per month.
- Outbound Data Transfer, 10 TB per month.
- Is Oracle Cloud Free Tier available in all countries? Yes, Oracle Cloud Free Tier is currently available worldwide.
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10 Mbps bandwidth killed it?
Not sure if that's external egress or internal load balancer.
This is awesome!
It seems like only the LB is 10Mbps?
Networking: Includes one VNIC with one public IP address and up to 480 Mbps network bandwidth
https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier/resourceref.htm
Oracle giving away something for free?....
why not? free is always a good thing. Don't complain.
Their DNS is also a great deal if you have a lot of zones but not many lookups, as they only charge for lookups. Many other places charge for zones or have a zone limit.
I've been using it for a year or so I think. Works great, just have to deal with Oracle's inability to make a good control panel ever.
Denied my revolut card
Use a real card
looks like they are denying all debit cards, be it genuine from your bank or any virtual cards.
need to be a valid credit card.
Huh neat. Thanks for sharing this
Worked just fine for my debit card
Signed up for Mumbai zone.
Micro tier VM deployed.
username : ubuntu
Edit: network is a little throttled on the micros.
Couldn't pull more than 50Mbit from Linode Mumbai 100MB testfile.
Perhaps the other regular instance 'shapes'(types) will be better.
Damn! That's some nice beef jerky right here. It's nice to see AMD product adopted by such beghemot like Oracle.
that's weird. I tried to use Maybank (Malaysia's number 1 bank, and the best bank in South East Asia) visa debit card, they deducted a dollar from my bank but still declining my sign up. Even a staff don't have idea why this happen, and just tell me to "use another card" or try another time.
Edit: just chat with Oracle Indian guy. He said there should be two authorization, first its $1 , if it succeed, second reauthorization will attempt to charge you a random amount about $50. So, if your debit card has less than $50, your transaction will fail. I dont know if he's joking, but that what he said. fucking $50 for re-authorization.The last I got is:
And nothing after that. The web page said this can take 15 minutes, which have already passed.
A snippet of what the CPU steal looks like on the micro instance during apt dist-upgrade.
To be expected. looks ok
It didn't like my Visa debit either.
Initial thoughts: network isn't great on the free instances, ~50Mbps (US-West Phoenix)
no debian images
They take only credit card but not prepaid credit card.
setup one in Frankfurt (DE - Europe)
network ain't great here too:
So yeah, not getting anything high performance for free, but it's free so I can't complain. 5.5MB/s on the network (up & down), 50-55MB/s i/o cap. Ubuntu or CentOS are the only options, Debian image would be nice.
Assuming they actually keep the free tier alive long term it'll work great for monitoring, some offsite storage (assuming you don't need to store or retrieve anything quickly), small sites, etc.
Contacted the live chat, then shortly got a voice call from Ireland (!), and after a little chat got my account created.
do you use a debit card?
The new Always Free program includes the essentials users need to build and test applications in the cloud: Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute VMs, Block Volumes, Object and Archive Storage, and Load Balancer. Specifications include:
per https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oow19-oracle-free-tier-091619.html
gosh, if only i have a cc thankz for sharing anyway.
No Debian, no thnx
Yes, as far as I can see it has not been charged yet.
In other news:
Subnets they provision in (for your traceroutes):
Japan: 132.145.120.x
India: 140.238.246.x
Korea: 132.145.90.x
Beware: on sign-up it asks you to select your "Home Region". And it turns out that later on you can create the free "Micro" VMs only in that region. Even if you add ("Subscribe" to) other regions in the panel, they will have 0 quota for the Micro "shape", as opposed to 2 for the home one. Maybe it is possible to shift your limits around the regions via support, but I wouldn't necessarily count on that. Post your experience if you try that.
There is support for "Custom image" which accepts a VMDK upload (can create one in VirtualBox). Maybe I will try that later, but there seems to be no VNC console, so will be tricky with regard to adjusting network settings and such.
Or maybe will just convert Ubuntu to Debian.