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Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by mihcsab »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #18
eatonphil wrote: post #11

Lest folks not read the actual article, STH is pretty happy about this offering: > To us, this is a big deal. This is perhaps one of the best “free” instances that one can get. Something that we really like about Oracle’s Always Free tier is that one can use it without being as worried about overages as with Amazon’s offering. AWS has a size advantage, but Oracle has a great Always Free Tier offering.

I don't notice anything in the STH article about the license terms. (Sorry if I'm just missing it.) Given Oracle's reputation, no evaluation is complete without a thorough examination of those terms, ideally by a competent lawyer.

You have to manually upgrade your account to get charged.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by _jal »

SimianSci wrote: post #19

Enticing, but a part of me is still very hesitant to get in bed with Oracle. They've gained a reputation of trying to lock customers in so that their legal department can "innovate" more ways of squeezing money out of them. The common joke remains that Oracle is actually just two law-firms in a software-company trenchcoat. Until this reputation changes, any offer they present smells suspiciously like a baited hook.

Never invite a vampire into your home is timeless advice.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by westpfelia »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #18
eatonphil wrote: post #11

Lest folks not read the actual article, STH is pretty happy about this offering: > To us, this is a big deal. This is perhaps one of the best “free” instances that one can get. Something that we really like about Oracle’s Always Free tier is that one can use it without being as worried about overages as with Amazon’s offering. AWS has a size advantage, but Oracle has a great Always Free Tier offering.

I don't notice anything in the STH article about the license terms. (Sorry if I'm just missing it.) Given Oracle's reputation, no evaluation is complete without a thorough examination of those terms, ideally by a competent lawyer.

If you are running a business sure. But personally I just would like a beefy cloud instance to run some things off of for personal use.

Kinda perfect for that.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by dijit »

Be extremely wary of Oracle free tiers.

They offered a free tier and forced me to choose a shape. I chose the smallest of the two “shapes” but it was apparently not free. This was not especially clear until I got my first bill (it was extortionate; like 60eur/mo for 1cpu/2g ram) so I stopped/removed the instance.

This did not prevent me from being billed the next month, or the next month. They charged me until my card expired- then they finally cancelled the account and I paid the last bill manually. They then added another 0.1SEK charge (which is not payable, as 1SEK is the lowest denomination of currency).

I still get extremely high quantities of A4 paper through the mail box, at one point it was 29 pages of the same invoice.

I could have done something wrong here, but there is a distinct dark pattern on sign up and there are definitely bugs in the billing system.

Caveat Emptor.

EDIT: in case someone thinks I am joking. This was one of the packs: https://imgur.com/0fbsR3E

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by hn_go_brrrrr »

mihcsab wrote: post #31
CoastalCoder wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't notice anything in the STH article about the license terms. (Sorry if I'm just missing it.) Given Oracle's reputation, no evaluation is complete without a thorough examination of those terms, ideally by a competent lawyer.

You have to manually upgrade your account to get charged.

I bet you don't need to upgrade your account to receive nastygrams from Oracle legal, though.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by smarx007 »

chomp wrote: post #21

I played around with Oracles free tier. When you first sign up, you must choose a “home” region. You cannot add another region on the free plan. These awesome free instances are very limited stock. You have no way of knowing if the region you choose has stock of the desired instances before you select the region. You may not change your “home” region. You will get sales phone calls. Caveat emptor.

You can change the zone within the region. There were no free Ampere instances in the Frankfurt AZ1, I found them in AZ2. Though it only works for the Ampere. 1vCPU x86 VM can only be spun up in AZ1.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by exhilaration »

Iwan-Zotow wrote: post #5
sgt wrote: post #2

Can you run a small business on this, indefinitey, for free?

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. Think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawn mower"

For those unfamiliar with this quote, this is the source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by alx__ »

chomp wrote: post #21

I played around with Oracles free tier. When you first sign up, you must choose a “home” region. You cannot add another region on the free plan. These awesome free instances are very limited stock. You have no way of knowing if the region you choose has stock of the desired instances before you select the region. You may not change your “home” region. You will get sales phone calls. Caveat emptor.

So when i sign up I should the phone number of my nemesis? Noted.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by smarx007 »

SimianSci wrote: post #19

Enticing, but a part of me is still very hesitant to get in bed with Oracle. They've gained a reputation of trying to lock customers in so that their legal department can "innovate" more ways of squeezing money out of them. The common joke remains that Oracle is actually just two law-firms in a software-company trenchcoat. Until this reputation changes, any offer they present smells suspiciously like a baited hook.

Had IBM Cloud account for a while. At some point, they started to attach a notice to a monthly $0 bill along the lines: if you card gets declined, we will fine you $25 and if you don't pay in 7 days, we will fine you further $50. Easiest account termination decision I have ever had. I guess the first email from Oracle "we are making routine changes to the T&Cs and our privacy policy" will be the end of my account.
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