Oracle Cloud Always Free is a scam

[nicutor]

• https://www.trustpilot.com/review/cloud.oracle.com

The Always Free accounts are simple terminated without notice or a way to recover the data. They don't provide any reason for this and you cannot use your account even for paid products.

[FelipeFMA]

I've been using it for two years with no problems so far

[tsgoff]

I can still create new A1.Flex and E2.1.Micro instances. Started on 02.2022

Make sure that you are actively using the machines

[deependhulla]

Using Oracle Cloud Always Free, ARM Server.

[nicutor]

@tsgoff I've been working there daily for 3 months and then, for no reason, without any notice my account was terminated. The internet is full of people who are complaining about this. I basically lost my entire work there. I had no choice to start paying or such, which is unbelievable..
The owner of this list should at least specify this, at least the people will have a clue about what may or may not happen..

[karentamrazyan]

Yes, we'll add a note about sudden terminations without explanation. Thanks to all contributors for this important discussion.

[Boerny41]

Are you talking about the reclaiming feature? If so, it's not random or unexpected. They even warn you about it.

[data-base-911]

Are you talking about the reclaiming feature? If so, it's not random or unexpected. They even warn you about it.

Obviously not what the OP talks about.

OCI has also terminated my account and all its affiliated resources without any way to reclaim my data.

The twist is: I was a paying customer as well as using an Always Free ARM VM for hosting a small discord bot which never exceeded free tier limits.
The data was very important to my business and Oracle support is highly unhelpful.

[2001db8]

I've been using it for two years with no problems so far

I've been too until they suspended the account and terminated the tennant out of the blue about a week ago. Support could not tell me why. I've been running no game servers or anything like that but a simple Timezone conversion tool for friends.

[FelipeFMA]

I've been using it for two years with no problems so far

I've been too until they suspended the account and terminated the tennant out of the blue about a week ago. Support could not tell me why. I've been running no game servers or anything like that but a simple Timezone conversion tool for friends.

lmao, i even break their ToS and nothing happens

[Mexit]

I forgot about it... Apparently, time runs in a different direction for them.

[luizpaulonievola]

I've been using it for 5 years, but I use 8 bots, I'm always using 70% of cpu, 500gb of band every month.

[realsetvin]

I forgot about it... Apparently, time runs in a different direction for them.

It literally says in that message that you are on the always free plan, there was additional services that were offered during the initial period.

oracle is not a scam, they do regulate their products -

this issue can be closed

[danwdart]

I don't think they have resources left. They let you go all the way through registration and just tell you there's no resources upon the spinup phaase.