Oracle Cloud
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.”
“I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their "always free" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy.”
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“hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier”
“Oracle Cloud has really good price and many locations. That's why I use it.”
Caveats and dissent
“There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle.”
“Never trust Oracle. Using Oracle products professionally is tantamount to negligence.”
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“Not to be outdone, Oracle came along and said 'hold my beer.'”
“This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits 4 mentions
- Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers 3 mentions
- Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts 1 mention
- Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email 1 mention
Also written as Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Data: oracle-cloud.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Oracle's free tier ARM VM's specs were recently halved”
“There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle.”
“I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.”
“Never trust Oracle. Using Oracle products professionally is tantamount to negligence.”
“It is a nothing burger, for PAYG it stays the way it is”
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
“I use Oracle Cloud rather than AWS as their "always free" tier is plenty to run a reverse proxy.”
“even Oracle Cloud always free tier) have outlived many low cost solutions I tried.”
“Not to be outdone, Oracle came along and said 'hold my beer.'”
“This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past.”
“The user experience though, stuff of nightmares...”
“The account creation process was really confusing”
“All these efforts will come to nothing.”
“hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier”
“it could go away at any time and it's a PITA to reprovision”
I pay for Hetzner because it’s an EU based, sane company without a power hungry CEO.
“Oracle Cloud has really good price and many locations. That's why I use it.”
“Oracle make a cloud service that you wouldn't touch unless you had a team of Fortune 100 lawyers”