QuotaGuard: Cloud Free Tier Alert

If by "just," you mean a couple of weeks ago, yes.I noticed the change to their documentation about two weeks ago. A couple days later, I checked my own account for something unrelated. My main instance (using 12 GB of RAM) was still up, but another that I only used for testing random things had just vanished from my account without a trace.I get that they are well within their rights to reduce the Always Free resources (or even eliminate them entirely), but I did not get any notification that this was changing, nor that they would be terminating my instances that took the account above the Al

Same, haven't received anything. Maybe because I'm from the EU?EDIT: After logging in I see a banner: "Always Free A1 Resource Limit UpdateAlways Free Ampere A1 Compute entitlements have changed. This update does not affect your paid resources, existing paid workloads or bill. Contact support for further questions."It's not clear what this means for PAYG users though?EDIT2: In th Price List it says "Each paid tenancy gets the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free to create Ampere A1 Compute instances" (https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/). The word "paid" was not t

For what it's worth, I am a user of this and I'd like to clear up one thing that is not obvious here:There are actually two tiers of Free here that Oracle offers.Always Free - No credit card required, sign up. This is what the new limit applies toPAYG - You give a credit card, but like AWS and GCP there is a "free" tier for people who are on pay as you go plans. From what I can tell, the PAYG subscribers are not subject to this lower limit, only Always Free users.In other words, if you want the old provisioning limits for free you just have to put your credit card info in.There are additional

> Always Free - No credit card required, sign up. This is what the new limit applies toI don't think this is true. I just tried to sign up and it says----Payment/Identity Verification - You will not be chargedYou won’t be charged for using OCI Free Tier. If you choose to upgrade your account to Paid tier, you will only be charged for services used over your Always Free limits. If you don’t upgrade your account to Paid tier, you will continue to have access to Always Free services.You may see a small, temporary charge on your payment method. This is a verification hold that will be removed aut

Did "always free" ever really work? When I set mine up months ago, the advice was use PAYG with free tier, because Always Free would always report it had no capacity available. Sure enough, I tested it and this was true at the time.

Also apparently they will randomly terminate your instances if they think you’re not using them enough. Or if you’re using them too much. Can’t tell, it’s not transparent.Also, their control plane is so poorly designed, it makes AWS Console feel like good UX.

Yep. It's NOT possible to sign up OCI without a payment method now. I signed up late last month and observed the same.Additionally, it's next to impossible to spin up a free instance even if you provision it under the limit. Every single availability zone in the U.S. have all been constantly "emitting out of capacity" errors for free tier resource allocation. Ironically, if you provisioning beyond the free tier, they are ALL success.So it looks like Oracle shawdow banned the free tier (or only allow a fixed set of free tier resources that are completely saturated all the time (unless someone s

It has for me. I've had several permanent Arm-VPSes running in OCI for almost 4 years, without paying a single cent. But I'm on a paid tenancy, by having provided a verified payment card, which I think is the distinction that the OP is trying to describe.The "free tenancy", or trial period if you so prefer, has limitations: e.g. your provisioned Free(tm) resources can suddenly be yoinked in order to satisfy an allocation from a user who's in a paid tenancy, if that allocation also fits inside their Free(tm) envelope and ends up costing $0.00/mo. Simply put, paying customers have dibs, even on

To their credit their limits were historically crazy high compared to their competition. So I find it hard to fault them for this move....their tendency to delete accounts haphazardly with no obvious pattern as to who gets hit on the other hand is kind shitty. Mine's been good for years while others even with paid accounts don't fare so well