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by wexq 1880 days ago
It's missing Oracle Cloud's free tier.

Now, I don't like Oracle, their goings about with Java or their database (fortunately currently I don't have to maintain any of those), but their always free tier is solid, and I'd rank it as the best among free offerings.

I made an issue for it's inclusion, but for those who want a decent free cloud service, do check it out https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

You get 2 VMs with 1GB RAM, 2 Block Volumes for 100GB total, 10GB Object Storage, 10GB Archive Storage, 2 Virtual Oracle Databases (20GB) , Load balancer, 10TB outbound traffic/month and 10TB outbound bandwidth

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FWIW, I feel like hating Oracle is a perfect reason to use as much of their free service offerings as you possibly can... bleed them dry! ;P
I guess you could create and share a "continuous cartesian join" image in whatever their equivalent of an AMI is.
Give them a fake phone number though (if possible, I can't remember if they require SMS auth), they called me for like two weeks asking for me to spend money until I explained I was in college and I wasn't going to spend money.
Should've read this earlier. Hopefully they keep their sales pitch to a minimum in my country...
FWIW, I've not had any spam whatsoever from them.
> I'd rank it as the best among free offerings.

Had the opposite experience. They killed my free tier stuff after about two months.

Also their VM images come with extra bloatware

Seconded, i run some basic etl jobs there on a cron. VM 100% uptime for 1 yr so far. Also the S3-compatible 10GB block storage is just awesome.