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Oracle Cloud is having a major outage

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Re: Oracle Cloud is having a major outage

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Post by SadTrombone »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

Wow, there must be literally tens of people who are worried right now! My shitty, snarky comment aside, I am genuinely curious about why someone would choose Oracle as a cloud provider. If you look at their capex spend, it's undeniable they have so vastly underinvested in their cloud compared to AWS, Azure and GCP, that even if you were an "Oracle shop" I'm genuinely curious what benefits their cloud would offer. Edi…

I'm personally using it because they give you multiple VMs for free. 2x x86 VMs with 1GB of RAM, and 4 ARM (Ampere) VMs with 4 cores + 24GB to split up 4 ways as you see fit. All of that with a combined 200gb of block storage + 10tb of data transfer.

I'm no fan of Oracle, but that's a good amount of free stuff for my hobby projects.

Re: Oracle Cloud is having a major outage

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Post by ben7799 »

internetter wrote: post #2

Well, if the status page says they are up do the SLAs really apply? (half kidding, this seems like an oracle thing to do)

As a former employee this REALLY seems like something Oracle would actually do, along with instructing employees to tell customers it wasn't actually down.

It was before Oracle cloud but I literally was told to do things like that.

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Post by yabones »

space_ghost wrote: post #18
remram wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have a good free tier: ARM Ampere instance with 24 GB memory.

I snagged one of those as soon as they were available. And, so far, I've only used it to host my portfolio, which is entirely static. :D

I abuse mine to run a big-ass Elasticsearch instance with about a year of syslogs/weblogs for my personal machines. Not terribly useful, but a good outlet for my hoarding I suppose.

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Post by nray »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

Wow, there must be literally tens of people who are worried right now! My shitty, snarky comment aside, I am genuinely curious about why someone would choose Oracle as a cloud provider. If you look at their capex spend, it's undeniable they have so vastly underinvested in their cloud compared to AWS, Azure and GCP, that even if you were an "Oracle shop" I'm genuinely curious what benefits their cloud would offer. Edi…

You'll care about it if you can't pay for you coffee at Starbucks or whatever. I'm not if there is overlap between Oracle's public cloud and their own hosted services, but a lot of hospitality runs on Oracle (formerly Micros Fidelio) Simphony, and they are moving their customers from on-prem to Oracle Cloud.

Re: Oracle Cloud is having a major outage

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Post by internetter »

compumike wrote: post #24

> My trust and assumptions with real time status pages changed completely. FYI this is why we show real-time status on https://heiioncall.com/status including the time of the last inbound check-in or last HTTP probe.

This is a beautiful product with excellent pricing and the design is lovely. Great work.
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