Oracle Free Tier being reduced....

plumberg

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

Seems its going down from 4 ocpu 24gb ram to 2 ocpu and 12 gb ram

Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

DrNutella

Too late to try

varwww

thanks for the heads up, any idea how they are going to implement this on existing users?

mustafamw3

@plumberg said: Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

Yes, it will impact existing free ARM instances as well. A Reddit user commented that they contacted Oracle support and were told that existing Always Free ARM VMs exceeding the new limits would eventually be stopped unless the account is upgraded to a paid account and the excess resources are billed.

PuDLeZ

@varwww said:
thanks for the heads up, any idea how they are going to implement this on existing users?

No clue but I'd guess they will email folks about it with some deadline and then charge folks after that date or kill the instances if there's no card/etc. attached. That or they will rename the current things to something new and "retire" the current thing to force you to recreate/migrate to the new system. GCP (google) did something similar with compute like forever ago for their free tier.

Levi

Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

wrn

@mustafamw3 said:

@plumberg said: Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

Yes, it will impact existing free ARM instances as well. A Reddit user commented that they contacted Oracle support and were told that existing Always Free ARM VMs exceeding the new limits would eventually be stopped unless the account is upgraded to a paid account and the excess resources are billed.

Hmmm when the terms applied?

harrison

Seems its going down from 4 ocpu 24gb ram to 2 ocpu and 12 gb ram

@Levi said:
Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

I think this is due to the compute demands of LLMs

igctt

it’s also lucrative for someone even as 2cores + 12GB.

Fubukibox

What the fuck

dbadude

Never liked their cloud business even free i wouldn't recommend it.
Too complex, too much engineered, their licensing is already a big scam. But their database is one of a kind.

xaoc

Still great for the price. 😀

faleddo

@mustafamw3 said:

@plumberg said: Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

Yes, it will impact existing free ARM instances as well. A Reddit user commented that they contacted Oracle support and were told that existing Always Free ARM VMs exceeding the new limits would eventually be stopped unless the account is upgraded to a paid account and the excess resources are billed.

How many free IPv4 addresses are left? Is it still 2 or 1?

DataRecovery

@Levi said:
Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

Are they able to sign up?

Never tried to register myself, but according to what people post here, by far not every applicant is accepted.

JohnFilch123

@DataRecovery said: Are they able to sign up?

Depends. Oracle is very demanding and can reject you for multiple reasons.

Mainfrezzer

@JohnFilch123 said:

@DataRecovery said: Are they able to sign up?

Depends. Oracle is very demanding and can reject you for multiple reasons.

sometimes they dont even know why

Im still amused.

Levi

@DataRecovery said:

@Levi said:
Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

Are they able to sign up?

Never tried to register myself, but according to what people post here, by far not every applicant is accepted.

The mjj can be very determined if anything is offered for free.

farsighter

Some clarification here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/comments/1u4lzkk/new_free_tier_limits_confirmed_by_oracle_support/