Necro-ing this post because I, too, was tempted to check this out. So I opened an Oracle Cloud account on the 10th, though I never created any instances. All I

Necro-ing this post because I, too, was tempted to check this out. So I opened an Oracle Cloud account on the 10th, though I never created any instances. All I did was setup MFA on the account (which, BTW, was obscenely difficult to enable) and look around a bit. Oracle makes you add a credit card during account creation and they do a $1.00 temporary charge to make sure the card is valid. Well, here we are 3 days later and I have 3 x $1.00 charges pending on my credit card from Oracle (2 on the 10th and 1 today). I don't know if these charges will actually post to my card or disappear like they're supposed to; but this doesn't look good.