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Right now the most generous free tier is from Oracle (24GB RAM machines feels unreal). But you can find other free tier offerings here: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

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They will yeet your machines without any info tho. I had test (smallest in free tier) VM that just got destroyed one day.

But that is not all

My account is now "inactive", with no option to activate it and with no option to even pay and upgrade to paid tier.

The account is in some broken state where half of the dialogues produce dialogues like "Authorization failed or requested resource not found", like I had account with permissions denied to everything.

Even the "upgrade to paid tier" option gives

> You do not have access to perform this operation. Please contact your cloud account administrator for additional access.

Utter fucking disgrace

I tried to look at OCI but was immediately bamboozled with a slow as heck web site (locations table took 15 seconds to load!), a tonne of management BS about "aligning strategic objectives to operational constraints in a dynamic environment" and then was expected to immediately book a call with a salesperson.

No thanks Oracle even for 24GB free VMs!

Go to Oracle’s subreddit. It’s full of people whose free trial accounts were terminated.

"zombiefied" would be better description. Account exists but you don't have permission to do anything and you don't even have permission(lol) to upgrade to paid account

And you don't even have access to your data to backup or migrate.

On top of what other people said: capacity for the free tier machines is very limited. I wanted one to fool around with and it took multiple weeks of trying daily at varying times before I was able to actually allocate a VM.

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