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✂️ Oracle Quietly Cuts Free Tier Ampere A1 Resources in Half

｢ The change matters because Oracle Cloud’s Ampere A1 instances have been widely used by self-hosting users, developers, and Linux enthusiasts for small servers, test environments, personal services, and lightweight workloads ｣
https://linuxiac.com/oracle-quietly-cuts-free-tier-ampere-a1-resources-in-half/

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Oracle Quietly Cuts Free Tier Ampere A1 Resources in Half

Oracle’s Always Free Ampere A1 allowance now lists 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM, down from the previous 4 OCPUs and 24 GB limit.

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hufman 18h ago

@jbz Do you know if this change happened already? I got my first bill for my 3-yr-old Oracle ARM machine last month!

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jbz

@hufman from the article "However, Oracle’s approach to implementing this change could cause annoyance among users. To date, there has been no clear public announcement, blog post, or customer notice explaining the reduction, its effective date, or its impact on existing deployments"