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Oracle Cloud Free Tier + US$300 Free Credits (30-Day Trial)

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Oracle Cloud Free Tier + US$300 Free Credits (30-Day Trial)
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Lsloany on 20/09/2019 - 09:37 oracle.com (306 clicks)
Last edited 20/09/2019 - 10:11 by 1 other user

Oracle have released a free tier for their cloud computing platform. It does require credit card details on sign up.

Services you can use for an unlimited time.

Two Oracle Autonomous Databases with powerful tools like Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle SQL Developer
Two Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute VMs; Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications

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30-day Free Trial
US$300 in free credits.

Access to a wide range of Oracle Cloud services for 30 days, including Databases, Analytics, Compute, and Container Engine for Kubernetes
Up to eight instances across all available services
Up to 5 TB of storage

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  • Robin2012 on 20/09/2019 - 09:39

    great

  • mopo on 20/09/2019 - 09:58
    +9

    honestly this will end up costing you a lot more in the long run. oracle is trash.

    • z0idberg on 20/09/2019 - 10:05
      +4

      An unlimited free tier to evaluate services cannot "cost you a lot more in the long run".

      There are valid reasons for not liking Oracle products. That does not justify negging this deal.

      • dlovep on 20/09/2019 - 10:21

        30-day Free Trial

        sounds like trial rather than a deal, just saying …

        • z0idberg on 20/09/2019 - 10:28

          30 day free trial for a bunch of full services.
          Unlimited time use of two databases and two VMs.

          I'd agree a 30 day trial isn't a deal, but the unlimited time use of the free tier sounds like a deal to me if it would be something of use or interest (it is for me, probably not for many people).

          • [Deactivated] on 20/09/2019 - 11:07

            @z0idberg: Every time you connect, you’ll have to spend 20mins upgrading java and having malAfee installed by default.

          • dlovep on 20/09/2019 - 12:05
            +3

            @z0idberg: I would check AWS/Microsoft they have free annual plan and tier, at least not 30 day

            • [Deactivated] on 21/09/2019 - 07:43

              @dlovep: https://www.oracle.com/ca-en/cloud/free/

              It appears this option is infact FREE Tier

              the post is just a bit confusing include the separate and distant 30 day trial for sub library functions.

              https://www.oracle.com/ca-en/cloud/free/#always-free
              What are Always Free cloud services?
              Databases
              Your choice of Autonomous Transaction Processing or Autonomous Data Warehouse. 2 databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage.

              Compute
              2 virtual machines with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each.

              Storage
              2 Block Volumes, 100 GB total. 10 GB Object Storage. 10 GB Archive Storage.

              Additional Services
              Load Balancer, 1 instance, 10 Mbps bandwidth. Monitoring, 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints. Notifications, 1 million delivery options per month, 1,000 emails sent per month. Outbound Data Transfer, 10 TB per month.

              What can I try with my Oracle Cloud Free Trial credits?
              the $300 temporary 'credits' is the trial portion allowing limited access to limited number of upgrades to the above (more storage, bandwidth computing etc)

      • [Deactivated] on 21/09/2019 - 07:44
        +1

        Oracle have a long proud history of lock and burn.
        With Oracle's history it's free now, but later if you want to connect or use the VM, they could charge.
        If you want to export the VM, well it's likely you will be required to hand over your firstborn.

        Sorry I will no longer ever use Oracle products at home or the Enterprise.

      • Tardvark on 22/09/2019 - 17:57

        An unlimited free tier to evaluate services cannot "cost you a lot more in the long run".

        Doesn't matter, this is Oracle. I've got to deal with this douche bag company for our identity platform amongst other things. Even if its free, dealing with Oracle will cost you. You'll most likely pay in the currency of their choice though which is time and soul. If I were to describe Oracle as any character, it would be a dementor from Harry Potter.

  • bdl on 20/09/2019 - 10:06
    +2

    I hope it's not running on this: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/oracle-raspberry-pi-superc…

  • oznik on 20/09/2019 - 10:51
    +1

    I hope Oracle charge for VMs based on the number of physical cores like they do for their other products…

  • nofate on 20/09/2019 - 10:56

    Google Compute has free $300US credits with 12month credit expiry. Make new email, get more credits. My speed test exceeds 2.5gbs onto nvme drives.

  • droodle on 20/09/2019 - 11:05

    Tried an Oracle cloud server.. It was so ridiculously painful to set up.. and support was woeful

  • [Deactivated] on 20/09/2019 - 12:18
    +1

    Can someone confirm their perpetual VMs come with 10TB free egress?

    I'm looking at their youtube videos but it is very sparse on information. Is there also a spend limit tool?

    It is included. Wim Coekaerts interview.

    • Indomietable on 20/09/2019 - 17:56

      Yeah, I'm interested on this too! Details are lacking.
      The way I read it .. 10TB perpetual but its outbound only and doesn't say anything about inbound.
      They could charge $1000 per Kb

  • Jayzz55 on 20/09/2019 - 15:50

    They have a really bad customer support, and will try to sell you to upgrade more to solve the problem.

    Rather than being a deal, it's more of a bait to unaware customers. It's good for you if you know how to leverage them. Otherwise, most people will be ripped off in the long run.

  • Indomietable on 20/09/2019 - 17:51

    Thanks - The "always free" tier for their compute looks good! 10TB/month outbound is generous - I don't konw about inbound..
    I'm happy to take it as long as its free!

  • blighst on 20/09/2019 - 23:11

    Wow harsh voters.

    If you know the potential risks, it's a great free tier.

  • Tomhaigh1 on 20/09/2019 - 23:24
    +1

    Fk Oracle, never going to use any of their products.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/09/2019 - 07:46
    +2

    Much easier to sign-up to a Free AWS or Google Account every year, or just pay.

  • dan0909 on 21/09/2019 - 12:10
    +2

    Oracle and free don't go together. Prepare to lock n burn.

  • AssociatedPsomaggi @ Oracle on 12/10/2019 - 11:42

    Guys, I know Oracle has burned customers in the past, and I don't doubt your feelings towards the organisation are (at least somewhat) justified. But remember, Microsoft burned a lot of people in the Ballmer Vista/8 era but they managed to redeem themselves through good product and an internal transformation (I love Windows 10 and Office 365).

    I work for Oracle now, because I was burned by AWS as an ex-customer and I wanted to help shape Oracle for good in the launch of its second generation cloud service. I can vouch for the fact (as I've just come back from San Francisco) that every effort is going into producing a class leading product that is fair, easy-to-use, performant and well supported. It's ruffling a few feathers in the establishment at HQ as it's not the easy path… but it's the right path.

    All I ask is that you try us again - we have a slew of free training on offer here: https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/iaas/training and in the worst case, you get a free Linux jump box or two in-perpetuity and an additional set of skills on the resume. Best case - you are pleasantly surprised by the efforts going into building a cloud for Enterprise (read: traditional, performance-sensitive, mission-critical) workloads with extensibility to cloud nativity and you can find that solution to a problem that was unanswerable (either technically or financially) in the other clouds.

    Remember, Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. ;)

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