[elashri]

> The only reason I don't have it set up is because I made the mistake of closing my free teir oracle cloud thinking I could spin up a fresh new instance and since then I haven't been able to get the free teir again.

People are automating the process of requesting new arm instances on free tier [1]. You would find it near impossible to compete without playing same game

[1] https://github.com/mohankumarpaluru/oracle-freetier-instance...

[7thpower]

Well, I know what I’m doing tomorrow when I get up.

[hrrsn]

I had the same thing happen to me. I tried running a script for a month without luck (Sydney region). What did work was adding a credit card to upgrade to a paid account - no issues launching an instance, and it's still covered under the free tier.