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I have a terraformed 4 node kubernetes cluster with 6GB RAM each running on the oracle cloud free tier. I don‘t know why people bother with any other cloud if they are free tier level hobbyists.
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Signing up for services with a notoriously complex pricing structure, under the auspices of a company that is infamous for auditing its customers and forcing more money out of them on the basis of technicalities under threat of legal action, seems... unwise... to me.
> notoriously complex pricing structure You mean AWS? (an AWS bill has about 10 pages of items you get charged for, with only 3 line items explained what they are, and even then, not why you get charged. GCP is better, but not by much (let's call it about 4 pages), and Azure is again better, but also not really (2 pages). AND they're all at least 10x as expensive as colo or dedicated hosting. Yes, 10x. People will de…
When I saw an official "Free Plan" that is automatically deleted after six months, I thought that was a good move: now students could open an account, experiment for absolutely free for six months without the fear of unplanned costs being charged on their credit card, either when experimenting or months/years later because they forgot about their account and some hacker managed to get access to it. But according to t…
"Why do I need to provide payment method to sign up if I’m on the free plan?" its also to prevent abuse, from people making a mass account only abusing free tier
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"Why do I need to provide payment method to sign up if I’m on the free plan?" its also to prevent abuse, from people making a mass account only abusing free tier
yep and you can use aws itself for stuff like billing alerts -> automation to shut things down...
they probably think that 1 year service that you can use rarely is too good
I have a terraformed 4 node kubernetes cluster with 6GB RAM each running on the oracle cloud free tier. I don‘t know why people bother with any other cloud if they are free tier level hobbyists.
That's more than one free tier account can support. Make sure you're not actually paying for it.
> For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory.
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
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That's more than one free tier account can support. Make sure you're not actually paying for it.
Stop spreading misinformation. > For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… 1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…
For students to learn effectively, they need a safe harbor. The most critical offering for learners on AWS is a free or prepaid account tier that completely eliminates the risk of surprise bills, allowing them to focus purely on their education. If the free forever portion includes a t4g.small, 1 aurora, a 10 GB S3 bucket, that would be perfect. I am not holding my breath though.
If you go with a paid plan and only consume the "always free" services, then I guess it's still basically free? Except perhaps for any paid service you absolutely cannot opt out of for your use case. Ah well, there's always LocalStack for test environments.
You'll probably reach Localstack's free-tier's limits sooner than the ones of an AWS Free Plan.