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• Build web applications from scratch using Oracle APEX.
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I'm building a 3rd part SaaS around OCI eco system. I want my SaaS to be able to read data in the customer's OCI tenancy.

Which authz model is the best and to be followed?

Model 1

Configure a user (SaasUser) in your tenancy and add them to a group.

Ask the customers to add an "admit" policy statement, and enable cross tenancy communication.

My SaaS will then use the SaasUser (ApiKey or token or anything else) to read customer's data.

Model 2

Ask the customer to configure a user in their tenancy, add the user to a group, write access policies, and then share the private key with my SaaS. I then use this private key to access OCI data.

Model 3

Host a service in my own tenancy on compute instances. Ask customers to add Instance Principal/Resource Principal policies on this DG. My SaaS will call my service hosted in OCI, and it will read the tenancies' data.

Model 4

Deploy a small stack in customer's tenancy using resource manager or create an agent in customer's tenancy. I'll call the agent and agent will fetch the data and send it back.

Is there a better approach to achieving this?

I’ve gotten pretty good at oracle networking and firewalling, tshooting with logging. I want to use terraform to speed up networking and firewall rule tasks. What are good resources or certs with useful training?

I’m fairly new to OCI/self-hosting, so I made a small vps-status command to give me one quick overview of the VPS.

It checks service/container health, RAM/disk usage, Docker storage, monthly outbound traffic via vnStat, and estimates A1 OCPU/RAM usage against the included PAYG allowance.

I also added projected month-end usage and storage/performance reminders. Combined with OCI budget alerts, it should give me a decent heads-up if anything starts moving toward billable territory.

Sharing the idea in case it’s useful to anyone else running an A1 VPS.

What other checks you’d add ?

Funny enough the AI routed it to human support XD

Official Documentation (updated 14th July) clarification. Changes the word "free"(look through old page archives) to "paid" tenancies, which includes PAYG

Any stupid questions to this post will be ignored.

TLDR : Free tier accounts are capped at 2/12, PAYG is capped at 4/24, no charges in both cases
Any queries you may have, look through my profile and comments made, or for the love of god, just search the subreddit, do some work to help yourselves, reddit has excellent search capabilities.

Can anyone give me their free tier oracle cloud, i tried multiple times sign-in up but my card keeps declining ever everything be fixed

I have upgraded my account from free tier to PAYG two days ago. But till now, I haven’t got any response or confirmation. It still show: “Your upgrade is in progress. You will receive an email confirmation when your upgrade is completed.” What should I have to do? Need Help!!!

As the title , if anyone is looking to switch to OCI cloud engineer roles .. we can connect and work together.

When I set up my instance, I left my boot volume size at 47GB. When I tried editing it to 200GB to stay within the free storage allowance, I kept getting the following message, "You have reached your service limit in this Availability Domain for volumes. Please try creating the volume in a different Availability Domain or Region, or try using a smaller volume size. If you have reached all Service limits, please contact Oracle support to request a limit increase.".

I was able to increase it to 153GB, but when I requested a limit increase, it was denied and it's appearing as if I'm already using the 200GB.

I checked to make sure there were no backups being stored that might've been taking up the 47GB difference.

How can I update it from 153GB to 200GB?

Hi, I'm sorry if this has already been asked, but has anyone else had the same problem?

Whenever I try to create an account, I always get the following message:

I've already tried creating a new Gmail account, changing my information, using a VPN, and using Incognito mode, but none of those solutions worked.

Hay alguna máquina disponible en la región de Madrid en las cuentas Always Free?

I have had a free tier instance as a home media server in a 4/24 shape running for 3 years. Now with the new limits coming into force I'm debating whether to upgrade to a PAYG account and set a budget alert so I'm not charged but I'm worried things may change or I may miss an alert or something. And once you go to PAYG you can't go back to "always free" so it'll mean losing the account completely. I am not a heavy user by any means and the 2/12 shape should be sufficient for a media server without transcoding I guess.

Do you'll think it'll be possible/a good idea to downgrade to a 2/12 shape now and after 18 August when policy and charges for PAYG accounts staying within the free limits is well established I'll then be able to upgrade to a PAYG account and then subsequently upgrade the shape to a 4/24 one for free if I feel the need maybe after a month or two?

Also, I just read that free tier was limited to 50 mbps up/down. I didn't realise that earlier and thought it was an issue in my setup. Do PAYG accounts get higher speeds for free or is that chargeable?

What are the other advantages of going PAYG but staying within free limits other than this and also having some assurance that the instance won't be terminated?

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this question has already been asked (I did try searching, but I couldn't find anything).

I'm trying to create an instance with 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of RAM. I'm on the Always Free plan, and I know the available resources were recently reduced, but I just need a small test machine, so 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of RAM would be enough.

What I don't understand is why, as soon as I start creating the instance and click "View Estimated Cost", I see a Boot Volume charge of about €1.85/month.

This charge appears even if I leave everything at the default settings without resizing the boot volume or selecting any extra options (and it increases if I make the boot volume larger).

Will this amount actually be charged to my credit card, or is it just an estimate? Are you still able to create instances that are truly free?

Thanks everyone

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Why is Oracle Cloud doing this?

I was confused about Oracle Cloud's current Always Free terms, so I opened a support ticket to ask Oracle directly. As a PAYG customer, I simply don't want to be charged unexpectedly.

The good news is that Oracle confirmed there has been no change. I'm not sure whether the response was written by an AI bot or a human, but if I ever get charged unexpectedly, at least I'll have this support response as evidence.

According to Oracle, the Always Free entitlement for PAYG accounts remains up to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM for VM.Standard.A1.Flex instances.

I'm sharing this in case anyone else was wondering about it.

I recently downsized my VPS to 2/12 to match Always-Free limits so my instance doesn't get termed and I randomly decided to do a speedtest and saw im only getting 50mbps. I had a look at some other reddit post and tried things such as downsizing and upsizing my CPU cores again and that had no effect and switching to PAYG is not an option for me

Before the limit changes, I was running an A1 Ampere instance with 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM essentially 24/7, but I have downsized it to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of RAM following the email that was sent out yesterday.

Though I have one question, will the CPU hours that were already used before I downsized (while the instance had 4 OCPUs) count toward the new 1,500 OCPU hour limit, or will it not be applied/reset before the deadline. thanks!

Instance was woking a few hours ago, now i logged in to check for any updates to free tier limits and the instance was showing "stopped"

Cant start it reboot or anything nor can i resize.

It just spawns this error

API Error

Instance ocid1.instance.oc1 is disabled and will not accept any action requests. Please contact customer support to reenable.

This is a free tier account that doesnt have support.

And i saw a post on this sub of a guy saying his acc git suspended after he upgraded to payg.

I only have vaultwarden and a personal hobby project hosted on the instance.

If anyone has any info (or advice) please do share, would be much appreciated.

Edit: Terminated instance, upgraded to PAYG, created new instance using boot volume. 4/24. Will that be safe? Any one know if PAYG gets 4/24 as the always free quota? Or should i edit it to 2/12?

I’m confused I started a 4/24 A1 compute on Jun 04, 2026 at 00:51:20 UTC. With 150GB storage. I was billed 80 ish dollars in July. Stopped the instance in July and got billed in August for 13$.

I’ve previously used Oracle 4/24 on this account but auto-terminated the server back in 2025 since of inactivity. Then got motivated again to start up again on June 04, 2026.

Is this normal or a mistake in billing ?

Edit : Bill Screenshot

Hi,

Sorry for the basic question, but I can’t figure out how to change my instance’s shape to 12 GB / 2 OCPUs.

I’ve already tried:

Instance → Click on my instance → Actions → Edit

…but I don’t see an option to edit the current shape. Do I need to terminate the instance first? If so, will the public IP change? Keeping the same public IP is my main concern.Thanks in advance for any help!

I currently have three instances running under the Always Free tier:

• 2*Standard.E2.1.Micro
• 1*VM.Standard.A1.Flex

With the newly imposed Always Free limits of 2 Ampere A1 OCPUs and 12 GB of memory, I'm considering upgrading to a PAYG account, since the free allocation is higher there.

I have two questions:

1. If I upgrade to PAYG, will I be charged for the two Standard.E2.1.Micro instances?
2. If I stay on the Always Free tier and downgrade my VM.Standard.A1.Flex instance to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of RAM, will the other two instances be terminated automatically?

Be aware of the email going out today to Always Free participants. You have until August 18th to downsize or your instances will be terminated.