Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

Post by picofarad » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

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In Canada we have a grocery chain called Superstore that posts many products as "Always $x.xx" but the prices have continually been increased over the years. I wouldn't call it a lie but it sure feels dirty and unethical. They used to use the president of the family corporation in all their ads too, but don't anymore and that's probably because he knows they're in the wrong on this and many other things (like the pri…

Ah, my favorite exception to fraud: Puffery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery If everyone knows it's a lie... well then I guess it's not a lie anymore, is it? I kind of understand why the law takes this position. If you really think about it's hard to imagine how to truly fix this. But it still feels pretty dirty.

Post by numpad0 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

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throwaway67743 wrote: post #13

The A1 has been available for 6 years without a rug pull or reductions until now on a very overly generous offering - whatever you think of oracle, it's something else. My instances from 2020 are still running...

it is still a sign that things aren't going well there

Post by frollogaston » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 8:06 AM UTC

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Thanks for saving me some time. I wanted a free little server in case my home RPi is down for whatever reason. Not surprised it's too good to be true.

I've been on the free tier 1vCPU x86 / 1GB RAM for years and it was a perfect experience. I recently upgraded to the 4/24, and indeed you need to change to PAYG or otherwise it's out of capacity, but still no problem and within the free limits. For your use case, if the 1/1 instance is enough, I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.

Post by RobMurray » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 9:17 AM UTC

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SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #37

For what it's worth, I am a user of this and I'd like to clear up one thing that is not obvious here: There are actually two tiers of Free here that Oracle offers. Always Free - No credit card required, sign up. This is what the new limit applies to PAYG - You give a credit card, but like AWS and GCP there is a "free" tier for people who are on pay as you go plans. From what I can tell, the PAYG subscribers are not s…

> Always Free - No credit card required, sign up. This is what the new limit applies to I don't think this is true. I just tried to sign up and it says ---- Payment/Identity Verification - You will not be charged You won’t be charged for using OCI Free Tier. If you choose to upgrade your account to Paid tier, you will only be charged for services used over your Always Free limits. If you don’t upgrade your account to…

Post by Gander5739 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

devy wrote: post #81

collabs wrote: post #40

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> Always Free - No credit card required, sign up. This is what the new limit applies to I don't think this is true. I just tried to sign up and it says ---- Payment/Identity Verification - You will not be charged You won’t be charged for using OCI Free Tier. If you choose to upgrade your account to Paid tier, you will only be charged for services used over your Always Free limits. If you don’t upgrade your account to…

Yep. It's NOT possible to sign up OCI without a payment method now. I signed up late last month and observed the same. Additionally, it's next to impossible to spin up a free instance even if you provision it under the limit. Every single availability zone in the U.S. have all been constantly "emitting out of capacity" errors for free tier resource allocation. Ironically, if you provisioning beyond the free tier, the…