Oracle's free ARM tier cut in half — effective today, over-limit free instances power off
TL;DR
Oracle Cloud Always Free's ARM instance ceiling drops 50% today (June 15) — from 4 OCPU + 24GB to 2 OCPU + 12GB. Over-limit free instances are powered off. No transition period.
Starting June 15, Oracle Cloud Always Free's Ampere A1 ARM instance ceiling drops from 4 OCPU + 24GB RAM to 2 OCPU + 12GB — a 50% cut. Effective today. No transition window.
Two user paths, two failure modes. Free-tier accounts over the new limit are powered off; manual shape reduction required before they can come back up. Pay-As-You-Go users aren't powered off, but the portion over the new free limit starts billing today — your «free» instance may already be quietly costing money.
Worth noting: Oracle's docs are updated with the new limits, but marketing pages and the OCI console hadn't synced as of yesterday evening. Many users will only learn this when their instance dies.
What to do. Free users: OCI Console → Compute → Instances → select instance → Edit Shape, set OCPU to 2 and memory to 12GB or below, save, instance restarts, data preserved. PAYG users: check usage now; the overage is already billing — reduce shape or upgrade.
Oracle's prior track record isn't pretty: arbitrary deletion of «idle» free instances, ARM instance creation blocked in entire regions, account bans without cause. This cut has reignited community frustration; migration threads on LowEndTalk and Reddit are heating up.
via Fullmetalbrackets
Two user paths, two failure modes. Free-tier accounts over the new limit are powered off; manual shape reduction required before they can come back up. Pay-As-You-Go users aren't powered off, but the portion over the new free limit starts billing today — your «free» instance may already be quietly costing money.
Worth noting: Oracle's docs are updated with the new limits, but marketing pages and the OCI console hadn't synced as of yesterday evening. Many users will only learn this when their instance dies.
What to do. Free users: OCI Console → Compute → Instances → select instance → Edit Shape, set OCPU to 2 and memory to 12GB or below, save, instance restarts, data preserved. PAYG users: check usage now; the overage is already billing — reduce shape or upgrade.
Oracle's prior track record isn't pretty: arbitrary deletion of «idle» free instances, ARM instance creation blocked in entire regions, account bans without cause. This cut has reignited community frustration; migration threads on LowEndTalk and Reddit are heating up.
via Fullmetalbrackets
