Lots and lots of new at this year’s Oracle Openworld event. One major one is the Always Free Cloud Services.
Always Free Cloud Services
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Oracle is introducing always free cloud services!
Autonomous Database:
– 2 always free Autonomous Database instances per OCI Tenancy
– 20GB database storage per instance
– 1OCPU per instance
– APEX
– REST interface (ORDS)
– SQL Developer Web
– Machine Learning Notebooks
Compute Instance:
– 2 always free compute instances
– VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro
– 1/8th of an OCPU with the ability to use additional CPU resources
– 1GB RAM / One Public IP / up to 480 Mbps network bandwidth
– Oracle Linux / Ubuntu / CentOS
Storage
– 100 GB total of combined boot volume and block volume Always Free Block Volume storage.
– Five total volume backups (boot volume and block volume combined).
– 20 GiB of combined Object Storage and Archive Storage
– 50,000 Object Storage API requests per month
Networking
– Always Free 10 Mbps loadbalancer
– 10 Listeners, 10 Virtual Hostnames
More info:
– Cloud Service Description document (p11)
– Always Free documentation
Hi, Thanks for sharing the details.
This always free service is something on top of SG$400 credits? Also normally we have to use this credit on 30 days, Is there any limitation for free service , applicable for specific time/day/month or year?