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by TiredOfLife 615 days ago
When signing up for free tier the first month is actually a trial. After 30 days trial ends and you are downgraded to free tier. That causes the VMs to be destroyed. BUT! The storage with data stays and you simply recreate the VMs attach the disks and and everything continues to work.

Another possibility is that Oracle wants the machines to be used. So a simple `stress -c 1` in a screen is enough.