Oracle Cloud Free ARM Instances Being Throttled to 50Mbps

DejavuMoe · April 24

@DejavuMoe said:
i receive a mail noticed me that 'Oracle has scheduled a firmware update maintenance event on your instance(s).'

I will update the net speed test result then...

well, it’s still 50mbps……

gazeprobjm · April 24

My oracle free tier in Batam, Indonesia is also capped at 50Mbps

-------------------- A Bench.sh Script By Teddysun -------------------
Version : v2026-01-31

Usage : wget -qO- bench.sh | bash

CPU Model : Neoverse-N1
CPU Cores : 4
AES-NI : ✓ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✗ Disabled
Total Disk : 183.7 GB (55.6 GB Used)
Total RAM : 23.2 GB (4.9 GB Used)
Total Swap : 4.0 GB (0 KB Used)
System Uptime : 0 days, 9 hour 57 min
Load Average : 1.28, 1.20, 1.11
OS : Oracle Linux Server 8.10
Arch : aarch64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 5.15.0-319.201.4.2.el8uek.aarch64
TCP Congestion Ctrl: cubic
Virtualization : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✓ Online / ✓ Online
Organization : AS31898 Oracle Corporation
Location : Sekupang / ID

Region : Riau Islands

I/O Speed(1st run) : 97.3 MB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 89.0 MB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 88.7 MB/s

I/O Speed(average) : 91.7 MB/s

Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 46.59 Mbps 47.57 Mbps 1.90 ms
Los Angeles, US 49.62 Mbps 52.45 Mbps 184.01 ms
Dallas, US 51.05 Mbps 48.88 Mbps 197.50 ms
Montreal, CA 49.12 Mbps 50.24 Mbps 286.19 ms
Paris, FR 49.10 Mbps 51.25 Mbps 201.52 ms
Amsterdam, NL 49.69 Mbps 49.75 Mbps 202.73 ms
Suzhou, CN 52.61 Mbps 51.69 Mbps 313.13 ms
Ningbo, CN 52.00 Mbps 51.62 Mbps 327.88 ms
Hong Kong, CN 1.79 Mbps 3.38 Mbps 37.19 ms
Singapore, SG 48.03 Mbps 48.48 Mbps 36.65 ms
Taipei, CN 47.64 Mbps 47.64 Mbps 47.32 ms

Tokyo, JP 48.13 Mbps 47.31 Mbps 81.47 ms

Finished in : 6 min 35 sec

Timestamp : 2026-04-24 08:40:00 +08

Speedtest by Ookla

  Server: PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Banjarmasin (id: 1370)
     ISP: Oracle Cloud

Idle Latency: 18.35 ms (jitter: 0.04ms, low: 18.33ms, high: 18.41ms)
Download: 48.35 Mbps (data used: 70.0 MB)
18.50 ms (jitter: 0.08ms, low: 18.37ms, high: 20.70ms)
Upload: 48.04 Mbps (data used: 78.8 MB)
18.39 ms (jitter: 15.54ms, low: 18.25ms, high: 268.89ms)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/c87fd4b1-b27d-4a6b-854c-f4c01d55806c

Speedtest by Ookla

  Server: Orion Cyber Internet - Jakarta (id: 47489)
     ISP: Oracle Cloud

Idle Latency: 14.84 ms (jitter: 0.04ms, low: 14.77ms, high: 14.86ms)
Download: 47.63 Mbps (data used: 70.3 MB)
15.06 ms (jitter: 0.09ms, low: 14.90ms, high: 15.51ms)
Upload: 47.29 Mbps (data used: 77.0 MB)
15.12 ms (jitter: 20.91ms, low: 14.93ms, high: 451.74ms)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/1bb4113d-d63e-48fc-8101-ddb29a578fed

d1360 · April 24

My free tier in San Jose is also capped.

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Fri Apr 24 06:35:35 UTC 2026

ARM compatibility is considered experimental

Basic System Information:

Uptime : 4 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes
Processor : Neoverse-N1
CPU cores : 4 @ ??? MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 23.4 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 198.1 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-1047-oracle
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:

ISP : Oracle Corporation
ASN : AS31898 Oracle Corporation
Host : Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (us-sanjose-1)
Location : San Jose, California (CA)
Country : United States

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

Provider	Location (Link)	Send Speed	Recv Speed	Ping
Clouvider	London, UK (10G)	49.3 Mbits/sec	28.2 Mbits/sec	131 ms
Eranium	Amsterdam, NL (100G)	49.6 Mbits/sec	33.8 Mbits/sec	144 ms
Uztelecom	Tashkent, UZ (10G)	46.9 Mbits/sec	8.75 Mbits/sec	258 ms
Leaseweb	Singapore, SG (10G)	48.4 Mbits/sec	1.00 Mbits/sec	197 ms
Clouvider	Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)	52.1 Mbits/sec	44.6 Mbits/sec	7.96 m

mustafamw3 · April 24

Mine in Germany Frankfurt, not capped

ralf · April 24

They did some kind of scheduled thing that required both my free London instances to be rebooted. Not sure what they've actually done, but it's caused litefs to behave weirdly now, so instead of terminating immediately if another instance is already running and so it can't bind the port, it now sits around consuming a ton of CPU.

But as for network throttling, I guess nothing has changed for me:

Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.98 Gbits/sec  | 1.63 Gbits/sec  | 1.14 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 2.00 Gbits/sec  | 1.96 Gbits/sec  | 7.22 ms

These are completely free ARM instances (I only tested one), I don't have any PAYG set up.

nekomikoreimu · April 24

rip mine in chuncheon is now capped

Speedtest by Ookla
Server: MOACK Data Center - Yongin-si (id: 67564)
ISP: Oracle Cloud
Idle Latency: 3.85 ms (jitter: 0.06ms, low: 3.75ms, high: 3.91ms)
Download: 48.33 Mbps (data used: 75.2 MB)
3.73 ms (jitter: 6.22ms, low: 3.52ms, high: 219.35ms)
Upload: 48.28 Mbps (data used: 71.3 MB)
3.85 ms (jitter: 3.15ms, low: 3.65ms, high: 215.20ms)

DejavuMoe · April 24

@nekomikoreimu said:
rip mine in chuncheon is now capped

Speedtest by Ookla
Server: MOACK Data Center - Yongin-si (id: 67564)
ISP: Oracle Cloud
Idle Latency: 3.85 ms (jitter: 0.06ms, low: 3.75ms, high: 3.91ms)
Download: 48.33 Mbps (data used: 75.2 MB)
3.73 ms (jitter: 6.22ms, low: 3.52ms, high: 219.35ms)
Upload: 48.28 Mbps (data used: 71.3 MB)
3.85 ms (jitter: 3.15ms, low: 3.65ms, high: 215.20ms)

It appears this is not an isolated incident; much like the previous free AMD VMs, these too will gradually face restrictions.

hades_corps · April 24

Singapore ARM here, definitely capped to 50mbps. Seem like upgrading to PAYG is the way forward?

vpsam · April 24

Mine is PAYG and is not capped so that could be it.

udonworld · April 24

Mine in Tokyo is not capped either, PAYG account with free resources only.

I remember someone saying free tier accounts were allowed unlimited transfer because they don't have a payment method, while PAYG accounts would get charged for egress after 10TB/month... Perhaps they wanted to close this loophole

eliphas · April 24

to add up in the "not me too" list, neither of my 2xARM or 2xAMD free instances are 50MB limited, zone sa-sao-paulo-1.
(PAYG account but full free tier instances)

DejavuMoe · April 25

@hades_corps said:
Singapore ARM here, definitely capped to 50mbps. Seem like upgrading to PAYG is the way forward?

At present, it seems that the speed of PAYG account has not been limited to 50mbps.

DejavuMoe · April 25

@udonworld said:
Mine in Tokyo is not capped either, PAYG account with free resources only.

I remember someone saying free tier accounts were allowed unlimited transfer because they don't have a payment method, while PAYG accounts would get charged for egress after 10TB/month... Perhaps they wanted to close this loophole

that will be, maybe

d1360 · April 25

I upgraded to PAYG but still getting capped.

DejavuMoe · April 25

@d1360 said:
I upgraded to PAYG but still getting capped.

need to rebuild the vm

d1360 · April 25

@DejavuMoe said:

@d1360 said:
I upgraded to PAYG but still getting capped.

need to rebuild the vm

Ok, I rebuilt it using the option "Send diagnostic reboot" after upgrading to PAYG and it's not capped anymore.

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ARM compatibility is considered experimental

Basic System Information:

Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
Processor : Neoverse-N1
CPU cores : 4 @ ??? MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 23.4 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 201.4 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-1049-oracle
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:

ISP : Oracle Corporation
ASN : AS31898 Oracle Corporation
Host : Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (us-sanjose-1)
Location : San Jose, California (CA)
Country : United States

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

Provider	Location (Link)	Send Speed	Recv Speed	Ping
Clouvider	London, UK (10G)	1.31 Gbits/sec	206 Mbits/sec	131 ms
Eranium	Amsterdam, NL (100G)	1.51 Gbits/sec	220 Mbits/sec	144 ms
Uztelecom	Tashkent, UZ (10G)	746 Mbits/sec	405 Mbits/sec	256 ms
Leaseweb	Singapore, SG (10G)	1.16 Gbits/sec	912 Mbits/sec	176 ms
Clouvider	Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)	3.99 Gbits/sec	3.94 Gbits/sec	8.04 ms
Leaseweb	NYC, NY, US (10G)	3.34 Gbits/sec	2.58 Gbits/sec	68.1 ms
Edgoo	Sao Paulo, BR (1G)	760 Mbits/sec	312 Mbits/sec	222 ms

YABS completed in 4 min 14 sec

ss93 · April 26

Can confirm. But that's because I signed up only a couple days ago. Thought it was normal. Still, for my use case it's more than enough

Levi · April 26

Close this thread until Oracle didn't saw it. All that wine about FREE service

DejavuMoe · April 26

@Levi said:
Close this thread until Oracle didn't saw it. All that wine about FREE service

“Free” doesn’t mean people can’t discuss limitations or changes.

If a topic isn’t interesting, it’s always an option to just close the tab. Most people do that.

paul92 · April 27

Johannesburg (free tier) also seems to be affected.

Hosted by Iclix Pty Ltd (Bloemfontein) [368.57 km]: 9.414 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 48.76 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 20.04 Mbit/s

it seems to be inconsistent - others on PAYG are claiming reduction too...

dbadude · April 27

i still remember my boss paying 10.000 euros per month for a T1 1.5 mbit connection. Now you have a 50mbit for free. crazy times we live in.

DejavuMoe · April 27

@dbadude said:
i still remember my boss paying 10.000 euros per month for a T1 1.5 mbit connection. Now you have a 50mbit for free. crazy times we live in.

As a member of the earliest cohort of Gen Z, I recall when our family first got broadband back in the sixth grade; at the time—coming from the era of dial-up—a 4 Mbps connection cost roughly $180/y.

Fast forward about a decade or so, and our broadband bill remains around $190/y, yet it upgraded to a downstream speed of 1 Gbps.

That applies to home broadband; however, Oracle previously offered its Free Tier ARM instances bandwidth speeds of up to 4 Gbps—a figure that was, at the time, simply unimaginable.

cavedog · April 27

Johannesburg, South Africa capped to 50Mbps. Started on the 19th for me. ARM instance free tier.

cavedog · April 30

@cavedog said:
Johannesburg, South Africa capped to 50Mbps. Started on the 19th for me. ARM instance free tier.

Upgraded to PAYG plan which charges 93 Euro once off which is R1865 South African Rand give or take. Did a diagnostic reboot and the throttle is gone. Just need to make sure I stay under the 10TB egress traffic, or it will start billing me for usage.

bench · April 30

Mine was throttled after first speedtest

root@br:~# curl -sL bench.laset.com | bash -s -- -sas
 =========================================================
 \            Speedtest https://bench.laset.com          /
 \    System info, Geekbench, I/O test and speedtest     /
 \                 v1.8.7    2026-02-02                  /
 =========================================================
 Machine location: Brazil, São Paulo (Sao Paulo)
 ISP & ORG: AS31898, Oracle Corporation / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (sa-saopaulo-1)
 ## South America Speedtest.net
 Location                             Upload      Download       Ping    Loss
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Nearby                          4154.94 Mbps  3978.06 Mbps    0.34 ms      0%
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Brazil, Sao Paulo /TIM            47.52 Mbps    47.81 Mbps    1.36 ms      0%
 Colombia, Bogota /Tigo            50.25 Mbps    50.96 Mbps  130.74 ms     N/A
 Ecuador, Quito /Netlife           50.22 Mbps    49.68 Mbps  183.05 ms     N/A
 Peru, Lima /FIBERLUX              50.00 Mbps    50.05 Mbps   85.42 ms     N/A
 Bolivia, La Paz /Nuevatel         49.84 Mbps    49.78 Mbps   95.25 ms     N/A
 Paraguay, Asuncion /TEISA         47.66 Mbps    47.70 Mbps   24.91 ms      0%
 Chile, Santiago /Movistar         49.32 Mbps    49.42 Mbps   51.17 ms     N/A
 Argentina, Buenos Aires /Claro    48.91 Mbps    47.89 Mbps   31.23 ms      0%
 Uruguay, Montevideo /Movistar     47.39 Mbps    47.61 Mbps   28.46 ms      0%
 ## Statistics
 Total Traffic    : 8.24 GB
 Total Downloaded : 5.86 GB
 Total Uploaded   : 2.38 GB
 Average Loss     : 0.00 %
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Protocol903 · April 30

@Fubukibox said: IIRC, only AMD vps are capped to 40-50Mbps last time i used one.

No. My ARM is affected too. Both ARM and AMD. Tried with separate VNIC. Still the same.

paul92 · May 5

What's strange is that my instance London despite being notified about maintence which was carried that hasn't been throttled - I still have full speed.

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