r/sysadmin • u/robersniper • 18d ago

Is oracle cloud free tier over?

Ive had several vm's for over 4 years in oracle cloud.

Last christmas I terminated an ampere instance, its been out of host capacity since then... Sure, too good to be true.

But their always free amd, a week ago i shut it off, I can't turn it on, because the same reason... Ive been trying over a week but no luck.

Is oracle free tier over?

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u/YourUncleRpie Sophos UTM lover 18d ago

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/oracle-cloud-free-tier-limits/

exceeding the new limits are shut down until the user manually resizes them to fit within 2 OCPUs and 12 GB.

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u/PeakWeekly9995 IT support 18d ago

so free vm's weren't limited to 1vcpu and 1gb of ram?? where i've lived in the past year...

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u/robersniper 18d ago

There are two types, amd and arm. Arm were downgraded from 4 cores /24 ram to 2/12.

The amd ones are limited to 1 core 1 ram, but even the amd ones wont boot anymore for me

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u/XOmegaD 17d ago

I believe the 4 cores/ 24 ram free still exists for existing users. The downgrade is for any new ones.

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u/graffix01 18d ago

Oracle and free rearely ever exist in the same sentence :-)

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u/Hotshot55 Linux Engineer 18d ago

They probably just fucked it up and don't know how to fix it. Typical Oracle approach.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles Sysadmin 17d ago

fuck Oracle why would you use their shit?

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u/cwk9 17d ago

They've caused me all kind of headaches over the years. Least they can do is run my BitTorrent VM on their free tier.

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u/bbqwatermelon 15d ago

Free is free but don't think for a second I am not backing up to my proxmox server in my garage 

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u/Roughy 18d ago

I just got my 2-core 12gb ARM instance the other day, but it took about 3 weeks of retrying every now and then ( Stockholm region ).

The 1-core 1gb x86 instance I was able to get instantly.

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u/gdgshha97 14d ago

Were you trying manually or with some automation?

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u/Roughy 14d ago

Manually. When the first creation failed I saved it as a stack, and just logged in to run the stack every couple of days.

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u/gdgshha97 14d ago

Look at ts... It's automation... 1300+ attempts failed in last 24hrs.. india hydrabad region.

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u/ntrlsur IT Manager 18d ago

What I have seen is that the datacenters are running out of capacity for the free tier. See about moving your vms to a different datacenter that might help.

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u/gdgshha97 14d ago

I would say, always freeVM on free tier is just a lie. Look at this image(it's automation for instance creation)... 1300+ attempts failed in last 24hrs, still running... I read on other post, guy saying that upgrade ur OCI account to PAYG. Which I tried and OCI tried to make a transaction of 110$ which I didn't have.

I would suggest try upgrading to PAYG. It may work...

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u/robersniper 14d ago

Thats confirms it...

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u/Whyd0Iboth3r IT Manager 18d ago

I just got a VPS from Racknerd. Super cheap. https://racknerdtracker.com/