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My understanding is that the three reasons people use Oracle Cloud are: 1. You're valuable enough of a marketing point that they're willing to give you insane
by Macha 6y ago
My understanding is that the three reasons people use Oracle Cloud are:
1. You're valuable enough of a marketing point that they're willing to give you insane discounts to reel you in (see Zoom)
2. You're locked in enough on other Oracle technologies and they've raised your license fees but coincidentally it comes with a big bundle discount if you also use Oracle cloud, or maybe you just failed an audit and Oracle said the problem will go away if you buy some cloud services.
3. For really small scale (like some dude on r/selfhosted scale, not even startup scale), they offer a free tier that doesn't have a time limit
- philliphaydon 6y agoNice, 2 VMs for free. Might put my little side project there for a while. Currently on 2 nano vm's on AWS.
- philistine 6y agowe're talking very few dollars here. In my experience, the only thing making me go above a dollar a month on AWS is the storage on the VMs.