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They have the most generous free tier. 2 free VM's each with 50 GB of storage and 2 free autonomous Oracle databases with 20 GB of storage.
by ab_testing 6y ago
They have the most generous free tier. 2 free VM's each with 50 GB of storage and 2 free autonomous Oracle databases with 20 GB of storage.
- gpm 6y agoTheoretically they do. Practically I couldn't even get an account last time I tried (a few months ago). It would attempt to charge my credit card a 1 dollar "check the payment is working fee" and fail (even though the charge was going through successfully).
- travbrack 6y agoIt just worked for me. The card verification page tried to launch Flash for some reason, but it worked even though my browser blocked it.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoWhat is the catch here? That seems good enough to run most things on.
- michaelt 6y agoThey offer 2 free Oracle databases. The catch is they're Oracle databases. In other words it's the same as every cloud provider: They hope you'll build a business system that uses enough of their proprietary tech that you can't easily move to another provider.
- ab_testing 6y agoYou can run mysql on any other free database on the 2 free compute instances. It is totally up to you. The autonomous database is Oracle's offering of their Oracle database - that requires no DBA or tuning and runs on Exadata infrastructure. They are offering it for free - because they want enterprises using existing on-premise Oracle databases, to move their existing DB applications to the cloud. Oracle Autonomous databases comes with free Oracle APEX - which is a low code / no code toolchain.
- nnt38 6y agoYou get 1/8 OCPU per VPS