{"slug": "oracle-cloud", "name": "Oracle Cloud", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 18, "warners": 9, "score": -2.373, "rising": -0.31, "first": "2025-12-05", "latest": "2026-10-09", "why": "I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 4, "compare": 0, "warn": 9}, "spark": [0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "oracle.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.oracle.com/cloud/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Oracle Cloud", "Oracle Cloud Free Tier"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 787003744, "item_id": 49187734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187734", "by": "wastedpotencial", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.", "excerpt": "I've been on the free tier 1vCPU x86 / 1GB RAM for years and it was a perfect experience. I recently upgraded to the 4/24, and indeed you need to change to PAYG or otherwise it's out of capacity, but still no problem and within the free limits. For your use case, if the 1/1 instance is enough, I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.", "context": "on free tier for years", "use_case": "free small backup server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits"}, {"id": 783521424, "item_id": 48970089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970089", "by": "lorenzowood", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their \"always free\" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy.", "excerpt": "+1 I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their \"always free\" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy. As you say, could be anywhere.", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse proxy hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"}, {"id": 748171089, "item_id": 46760693, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760693", "by": "AWebOfBrown", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier", "excerpt": "If you're interested in hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier (4 cpu, 24GB ram), instead of buying a Mac Mini or paying for a VPS, I wrote up how-to with a Pulumi infra-as-code template here: https://abrown.blog/posts/personal-assistant-clawdbot-on-oracle-cloud/", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"}, {"id": 739956608, "item_id": 46247288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247288", "by": "redox99", "date": "2025-12-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Oracle Cloud has really good price and many locations. That's why I use it.", "excerpt": "Oracle Cloud has really good price and many locations. That's why I use it.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 795341824, "item_id": 49708864, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708864", "by": "mulmen", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle.", "excerpt": "There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle. The Free Tier page says up to 2 VMs with 12GB of RAM. Compute Arm Compute Instance Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 12 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or 2 VMs Always Free 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle\u2019s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts"}, {"id": 786999664, "item_id": 49187479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187479", "by": "Dimtree", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Never trust Oracle. Using Oracle products professionally is tantamount to negligence.", "excerpt": "I'm in the same boat. I thought \"how bad could it be, surely people are exaggerating\" and signed up to check out their free tier. My account was killed without notice about a month after setup and I got the same treatment from support, they just instantly closed my ticket with \"you account terminate.\" They did eventually notify me by email a full 60 days after actually deleting my VMs and the email had a little blurb", "context": "", "use_case": "free tier cloud VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits"}, {"id": 761456560, "item_id": 47591035, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591035", "by": "silisili", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Not to be outdone, Oracle came along and said 'hold my beer.'", "excerpt": "I use it only for the free(for now) tier. I always thought AWS console was about the worst UI/UX could get. Not to be outdone, Oracle came along and said 'hold my beer.'", "context": "", "use_case": "free-tier cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email"}, {"id": 756750496, "item_id": 47296906, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296906", "by": "chrismorgan", "date": "2026-03-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past.", "excerpt": "This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances: > Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true: > \u2022 CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 20% ", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers"}]}], "who": [{"by": "wastedpotencial", "context": "on free tier for years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187734", "date": "2026-08-05"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["free-tier cloud vms", "free-tier cloud hosting", "cloud hosting", "free-tier vps hosting", "free small backup server", "free tier cloud vms"], "compared": [{"slug": "hetzner-cloud", "name": "Hetzner Cloud", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183750", "title": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119", "title": "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962758", "title": "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985548", "title": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702239", "title": "Oracle\u2019s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587935", "title": "Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-01": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"warn": 4}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 2, "warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"warn": 1}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 800297313, "item_id": 50018582, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018582", "by": "lgl", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Oracle's free tier ARM VM's specs were recently halved", "excerpt": "Oracle's free tier ARM VM's specs were recently halved so now they only give ARMs with 2 CPUs and 12GB of RAM [0]. Still great value though, have my app's website and associated infra on one of those 4CPU/24GB in \"pay-as-you-go\" mode and never ever reached the paying threshold. [0] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier VPS hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 795341824, "item_id": 49708864, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708864", "by": "mulmen", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle.", "excerpt": "There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle. The Free Tier page says up to 2 VMs with 12GB of RAM. Compute Arm Compute Instance Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 12 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or 2 VMs Always Free 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle\u2019s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts"}, {"id": 787003744, "item_id": 49187734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187734", "by": "wastedpotencial", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.", "excerpt": "I've been on the free tier 1vCPU x86 / 1GB RAM for years and it was a perfect experience. I recently upgraded to the 4/24, and indeed you need to change to PAYG or otherwise it's out of capacity, but still no problem and within the free limits. For your use case, if the 1/1 instance is enough, I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.", "context": "on free tier for years", "use_case": "free small backup server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits"}, {"id": 786999664, "item_id": 49187479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187479", "by": "Dimtree", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Never trust Oracle. Using Oracle products professionally is tantamount to negligence.", "excerpt": "I'm in the same boat. I thought \"how bad could it be, surely people are exaggerating\" and signed up to check out their free tier. My account was killed without notice about a month after setup and I got the same treatment from support, they just instantly closed my ticket with \"you account terminate.\" They did eventually notify me by email a full 60 days after actually deleting my VMs and the email had a little blurb", "context": "", "use_case": "free tier cloud VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits"}, {"id": 786995344, "item_id": 49187209, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187209", "by": "sva_", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It is a nothing burger, for PAYG it stays the way it is", "excerpt": "It is a nothing burger, for PAYG it stays the way it is: > Each paid tenancy gets the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free to create Ampere A1 Compute instances. This free-tier usage is shared across Bare Metal, Virtual Machine, and Container Instances. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/ When I login, top banner also says: > Always Free Ampere A1 Compute entitlements have changed. This ", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud compute", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits"}, {"id": 786964480, "item_id": 49185280, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185280", "by": "sunaookami", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Same, haven't received anything. Maybe because I'm from the EU? EDIT: After logging in I see a banner: \"Always Free A1 Resource Limit Update Always Free Ampere A1 Compute entitlements have changed. This update does not affect your paid resources, existing paid workloads or bill. Contact support for further questions.\" It's not clear what this means for PAYG users though? EDIT2: In th Price List it says \"Each paid ten", "context": "", "use_case": "Always Free ARM server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits"}, {"id": 783521424, "item_id": 48970089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970089", "by": "lorenzowood", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their \"always free\" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy.", "excerpt": "+1 I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their \"always free\" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy. As you say, could be anywhere.", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse proxy hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"}, {"id": 783484050, "item_id": 48967753, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967753", "by": "blfr", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "even Oracle Cloud always free tier) have outlived many low cost solutions I tried.", "excerpt": "Not really, not for 1\u00a2/day. Most massive platforms that I use for free (Google Workspace, Cloudflare Pages, even Oracle Cloud always free tier) have outlived many low cost solutions I tried.", "context": "", "use_case": "free-tier hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"}, {"id": 761456560, "item_id": 47591035, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591035", "by": "silisili", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Not to be outdone, Oracle came along and said 'hold my beer.'", "excerpt": "I use it only for the free(for now) tier. I always thought AWS console was about the worst UI/UX could get. Not to be outdone, Oracle came along and said 'hold my beer.'", "context": "", "use_case": "free-tier cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email"}, {"id": 756750496, "item_id": 47296906, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296906", "by": "chrismorgan", "date": "2026-03-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past.", "excerpt": "This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances: > Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true: > \u2022 CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 20% ", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers"}, {"id": 756713504, "item_id": 47294594, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294594", "by": "12345ieee", "date": "2026-03-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The user experience though, stuff of nightmares...", "excerpt": "I've been using it professionally for years. As long as you don't use their exclusive DBaaS, moving away is easier than from other places, as egress traffic is free. The user experience though, stuff of nightmares...", "context": "Has used Oracle Cloud professionally for years", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers"}, {"id": 756697936, "item_id": 47293621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293621", "by": "XCSme", "date": "2026-03-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The account creation process was really confusing", "excerpt": "I used their free tier. The account creation process was really confusing, and they kept turning off my instance because usage was not high enough. It seemed quited oudated/confusing to use last time I tried it a few years ago.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud VMs (free tier)", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers"}, {"id": 754451586, "item_id": 47153224, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153224", "by": "Beretta_Vexee", "date": "2026-02-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "All these efforts will come to nothing.", "excerpt": "It is incredibly stupid and counterproductive to make this kind of statement publicly. Most of the GAFAM companies are doing their utmost to try to reassure their European customers with a facade of sovereignty. All these efforts will come to nothing. Amazon sovereign cloud https://aws.eu/fr/ Azure sovereign https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/sovereignty Oracle soverign https://www.oracle.com/fr/cloud/eu-sovereign-cloud", "context": "", "use_case": "EU sovereign cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"}, {"id": 748171089, "item_id": 46760693, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760693", "by": "AWebOfBrown", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier", "excerpt": "If you're interested in hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier (4 cpu, 24GB ram), instead of buying a Mac Mini or paying for a VPS, I wrote up how-to with a Pulumi infra-as-code template here: https://abrown.blog/posts/personal-assistant-clawdbot-on-oracle-cloud/", "context": "", "use_case": "Free-tier cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"}, {"id": 746162272, "item_id": 46635142, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635142", "by": "jasomill", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it could go away at any time and it's a PITA to reprovision", "excerpt": "The main things I use Pis for are 1. Testing images to be deployed on customer Pis. 2. Testing software on ARM64 Linux. Pis are still cheaper than used Apple Silicon Macs, and require less fiddling to run Linux. I currently have a free Oracle Cloud instance that would work just as well for this, but it could go away at any time and it's a PITA to reprovision. 3. Running Mathematica, because it's free on Pi, I only us", "context": "", "use_case": "ARM64 Linux testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"}, {"id": 740905906, "item_id": 46306619, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306619", "by": "spiderfarmer", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I pay for Hetzner because it\u2019s an EU based, sane company without a power hungry CEO.", "context": "", "use_case": "Free VPS for Umami", "switched_from": "Hetzner", "story": "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"}, {"id": 739956608, "item_id": 46247288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247288", "by": "redox99", "date": "2025-12-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Oracle Cloud has really good price and many locations. That's why I use it.", "excerpt": "Oracle Cloud has really good price and many locations. That's why I use it.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price"}, {"id": 738659649, "item_id": 46166228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166228", "by": "jodrellblank", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Oracle make a cloud service that you wouldn't touch unless you had a team of Fortune 100 lawyers", "excerpt": "> \"Microsoft is under stiff competition (they are selling a product, an operating system, that is a commodity competing with free)\" Microsoft's Annual revenue from Azure is $75 billion. Office Server is $40 billion. Office Consumer is $6 billion. LinkedIn is $15Bn. Dynamics is $5Bn. Gaming/XBox is $15Bn. Search/Advertising is $14Bn. Devices at $5Bn. Intelligent Cloud at $87Bn. Windows $21Bn. They are a HUGE company w", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"}]}