Oracle cloud has introduced a new “Always Free” tier of virtual machines, with 2 always free x86-64 AMD EPYC-based instanced, with 1/8 OCPUs and 1 GB of RAM each, and an allowance of up to 4 ARM Ampere A1 cores, with 24 GB of RAM, shareable between up to 4 instances.
Other “Always Free” tier items from Oracle Cloud include: (from Oracle’s Website)
- Infrastructure
- 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total.
- 10 GB Object Storage.
- 10 GB Archive Storage.
- Resource Manager: managed Terraform.
- 5 OCI Bastions.
- Databases
- Your choice of Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous JSON Database, or APEX Application Development. Two databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage.
- NoSQL Database with 133 million reads per month, 133 million writes per month, 25 GB storage per table, up to 3 tables.
- Observability and Management
- Monitoring: 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints.
- Application Performance Monitoring: 1000 tracing events per hour.
- Logging: 10 GB per month.
- Notifications: 1 million sent through https per month, 1000 sent through email per month.
- Service Connector Hub: 2 service connectors.
- Additional services
- Flexible Load Balancer: 1 instance, 10 Mbps.
- Flexible Network Load Balancer.
- Outbound Data Transfer: 10 TB per month.
Sign Up
Sign up here and follow the instructions for sign up.
Creating a New Instance
Click on the menu dropdown, navigate to the “Compute” tab and click on “Instances”
Then, click on “Create Instance”
Under “Image and Shape”, configure your server to your liking.
Click on “Change Image” to change your operating system – on the always free tier only Linux Distros can be selected.
Click on “Change Shape” to change your server’s configuration (specifications).
Note for Using Ampere A1 ARM Instances
Click on “Change Shape”, click on “Ampere” and select the VM.Standard.A1.Flex spec, with a “Always Free Eligible” tag next to it. Then, click on “Select Shape”.
Then, slide the sliders to configure your machine, remember, each account has a SHARED pool of 4 ARM CPUs and 24 GB of RAM.
Starting Your Instance
Click on “Save Private Key” under “Add SSH Keys”, keep this file as this is what you’ll need to connect to you instance later.
Then click on “Create”
All done! You’ve set up your first Oracle Cloud VM instance!
Connecting to the Instance
Follow this guide here to find out more about connecting to your instance:
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