Ask HN: What do you think about the Oracle Cloud?

[se4u]

A gartner report came out recently which said some positive things about oracle's cloud offering. But I tried to google for reviews from actual users/customers and came up with nothing. No articles on medium about the good and bad of the service. Has anyone here worked with OC and can share their experience?

[psim1]

They have a generous free tier which I have been using for scratch VMs. I haven't been compelled to do any real work there, because I find their control panel to be maddeningly slow and confusing.

For free, you can set up a 4-core ARM64 VM with a whopping 24GB RAM, as well as a couple micro-sized x86_64 instances.

[QuinnyPig]

I’ve kicked the tires (as well as Oracle itself in the wibbly bits) and came away surprisingly and begrudgingly impressed. I haven’t run it in production yet, but the offering seems solid.

[mindcrime]

But I don't think about the Oracle Cloud...

[yuppie_scum]

Why not RDS MySQL or Postgres?

[ssss11]

They’re referring to Oracle cloud which competes with AWS, Azure, Google cloud etc not Oracle the database product