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Oracle Cloud "always free tier" has 24G of memory, 4 ARM CPUs, 200gb block storage, 200g object storage, a load balancer and some database stuff (may or may not be useful). I've been running a 4x node Kubernetes cluster for over a year, mostly for fooling around with.

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I was able to get a free x86 box but it's been impossible for me to get an arm instance on the west coast always out of space. Otherwise oracle free tier is pretty ncie

I had the same issue after shutting down my instances. I wrote a simple bash loop to recreate them and left it running overnight. All instances were up by the morning. I haven't shit any down since then. Reboots are fine.

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