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Oracle Cloud Free Tier

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Announced today: https://www-zdnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/oracle-introduces-free-autonomous-database-and-cloud-services/
Haven't looked extensively at it, but some interesting things in the "always free" tier:
- Two virtual machines with 1/8 OPCU and 1 GB memory each.
- 2 databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage (but you'll need to learn to be an Oracle DBA :-)
- volumes with 100GB total, 10GB object, 10GB archive
- Load Balancer, 1 instance, 10 Mbps bandwidth.
- Monitoring, 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints.
- Notifications, 1 million delivery options per month, 1,000 emails sent per month.
- Outbound Data Transfer, 10 TB per month.
- Is Oracle Cloud Free Tier available in all countries? Yes, Oracle Cloud Free Tier is currently available worldwide.
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10 Mbps bandwidth killed it?
I like what she said, not what it means.
Not sure if that's external egress or internal load balancer.
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This is awesome!
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It seems like only the LB is 10Mbps?
Networking: Includes one VNIC with one public IP address and up to 480 Mbps network bandwidth
https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier/resourceref.htm
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Oracle giving away something for free?....
why not? free is always a good thing. Don't complain.
You're so tight, baby.
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Their DNS is also a great deal if you have a lot of zones but not many lookups, as they only charge for lookups. Many other places charge for zones or have a zone limit.
I've been using it for a year or so I think. Works great, just have to deal with Oracle's inability to make a good control panel ever.
Denied my revolut card
Use a real card
looks like they are denying all debit cards, be it genuine from your bank or any virtual cards.
need to be a valid credit card.
You're so tight, baby.
Huh neat. Thanks for sharing this
Worked just fine for my debit card
Signed up for Mumbai zone.
Micro tier VM deployed.
username : ubuntu
1TB Backup-KVM (US) €4.25/mo 2GB Ram!
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Edit: network is a little throttled on the micros.
Couldn't pull more than 50Mbit from Linode Mumbai 100MB testfile.
Perhaps the other regular instance 'shapes'(types) will be better.
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Damn! That's some nice beef jerky right here. It's nice to see AMD product adopted by such beghemot like Oracle.
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that's weird. I tried to use Maybank (Malaysia's number 1 bank, and the best bank in South East Asia) visa debit card, they deducted a dollar from my bank but still declining my sign up. Even a staff don't have idea why this happen, and just tell me to "use another card" or try another time.
Edit: just chat with Oracle Indian guy. He said there should be two authorization, first its $1 , if it succeed, second reauthorization will attempt to charge you a random amount about $50. So, if your debit card has less than $50, your transaction will fail. I dont know if he's joking, but that what he said. fucking $50 for re-authorization.You're so tight, baby.
The last I got is:
And nothing after that. The web page said this can take 15 minutes, which have already passed.
A snippet of what the CPU steal looks like on the micro instance during apt dist-upgrade.
To be expected. looks ok
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It didn't like my Visa debit either.
Initial thoughts: network isn't great on the free instances, ~50Mbps (US-West Phoenix)
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no debian images
They take only credit card but not prepaid credit card.
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setup one in Frankfurt (DE - Europe)
network ain't great here too:
So yeah, not getting anything high performance for free, but it's free so I can't complain. 5.5MB/s on the network (up & down), 50-55MB/s i/o cap. Ubuntu or CentOS are the only options, Debian image would be nice.
Assuming they actually keep the free tier alive long term it'll work great for monitoring, some offsite storage (assuming you don't need to store or retrieve anything quickly), small sites, etc.
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Contacted the live chat, then shortly got a voice call from Ireland (!), and after a little chat got my account created.
do you use a debit card?
You're so tight, baby.
The new Always Free program includes the essentials users need to build and test applications in the cloud: Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute VMs, Block Volumes, Object and Archive Storage, and Load Balancer. Specifications include:
per https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oow19-oracle-free-tier-091619.html
gosh, if only i have a cc
thankz for sharing anyway.
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No Debian, no thnx
Yes, as far as I can see it has not been charged yet.
In other news:
Subnets they provision in (for your traceroutes):
Japan: 132.145.120.x
India: 140.238.246.x
Korea: 132.145.90.x
Beware: on sign-up it asks you to select your "Home Region". And it turns out that later on you can create the free "Micro" VMs only in that region. Even if you add ("Subscribe" to) other regions in the panel, they will have 0 quota for the Micro "shape", as opposed to 2 for the home one. Maybe it is possible to shift your limits around the regions via support, but I wouldn't necessarily count on that. Post your experience if you try that.
There is support for "Custom image" which accepts a VMDK upload (can create one in VirtualBox). Maybe I will try that later, but there seems to be no VNC console, so will be tricky with regard to adjusting network settings and such.
Or maybe will just convert Ubuntu to Debian.
email delivery services are available ATM only in 2 us regions
Fully Provisioned. Hooray!
Thanks for info.
At least 150 replies expected of which 70% discussing cards..
mmmm. ok.
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Anybody managed to (easily) install Debian?
There does not seem to be any support for custom ISO, virtual media, iPXE or even KVM console to manually install OS from scratch.
I guess dd'ing a raw disk image over the virtual hard disk won't work due to UEFI and some oracle cloud magic required to properly boot the VM.
Installing Debian via debootstrap from Ubuntu looks a bit reckless and might also brick the bootloader.
Building an image with bootstrap-vz only supports aged Debian jessie.
https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/OracleComputeImage
Any other promising ideas howto get a Debian for free - or success stories?
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Maybe run it inside a docker container...?
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If you all up these resources you get from Google, Amazon.... should be enough to run a summer host for 2-3 months and then make a run.
Sounds like a good concept.
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I'm now keep getting Out of host capacity error when spinning up an instance in their Seoul region, anyone else?
I guess they offered too much for free.
LET strikes again, poor Oracle.
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Got one in DE, 'apt-get update' skyrocketed STEAL time to 60+... It immediately went to 60 during the update and immediately returned to 0.3 when update finished.
Will check further to see if it's similar to Google's free micro VM.
This seems to be the most promising way so far, no problem it's jessie, if this works, can just dist-upgrade it to stretch or buster later within the running VM.Except there's no way to load a tar.gz in their panel. Perhaps the instruction is for an older version of it, or for a different product altogether.
Because you have 1/8th of a CPU core by the plan specs. Yes the CPU usage is capped, my dd+md5 test only gets about 90-100 MB/sec, whereas on a full core of this CPU it would show 500-600 MB/sec or more.
Will they charge If I accidentally exceed resources allocation (like Google does) or they won't charge for free tier under any circumstances ?
In fact reading the "manifest" file, there's nothing to suggest we can't simply copy this to "stretch.yml" and change jessie to stretch inside it.When providing the credit card info, it says you will not be charged unless you upgrade your account.
Control panel seems like a nightmare. How do you create an encryption key for a volume? I just get "not authorized" all the time.
You gave up to early - or didn't read the Oracle Cloud manual.
You need to go to "Object Storage" and create a "Bucket". There you can upload files. When you open the details of an uploaded file, you can retrieve the url of that file. With that url in your clipboard you can create a "Custom Image". The options qcow2 and paravirtualized seem to make the most sense to me. After the Image has been created, you must edit the properties and make this image compatible with Micro instances. If you have come so far, you will be able to deploy a new always free micro instance using your custom image. You will be happy as it might properly boot, you can check from another instance that the assigned private IP responds to ARP, but you won't be able to ping or ssh your new Debian instance, neither via public nor private IP. You will notice that it's the same, no matter if you do it all the way with Debian stretch or jessie and buster will already fail to build.
These are my findings of the day.
I think it was easier to get Debian running on a Amiga than in this weird Oracle Cloud.
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Oracle isn't interested in people running Debian. Their market is enterprises running big Java stacks, Oracle databases, Weblogic, Peoplesoft, and other grody enterprise apps. Probably 99% of their clients run either RHEL or OEL.
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Just be happy you're not limited to running Solaris.
I don't know about u oracle linux 7.7 distro is ok by me im up and running no complaints heck man its free, fsa all around
Slow AF. Time to wait for everyone to start idling these boxes but the performance currently (cpu, disk, network) is very bad.