# Oracle Cloud is Giving Away Free Virtual Machines (VPS)

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
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Sign up [here](https://www.oracle.com/au/cloud/free/) and follow the instructions for sign up.

Creating a New Instance
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Click on the menu dropdown, navigate to the “Compute” tab and click on “Instances”

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Then, click on “Create Instance”

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Under “Image and Shape”, configure your server to your liking.

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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).

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### 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.**

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### 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.

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Then click on “Create”

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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:](https://docs.rackspace.com/support/how-to/log-into-a-linux-server-with-an-ssh-private-key-on-windows/)

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