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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by wexq on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:11AM (#27023001)
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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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by saurik on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:17AM (#27023331)
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
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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by tyingq on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:43AM (#27026516)
I guess you could create and share a "continuous cartesian join" image in whatever their equivalent of an AMI is.
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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by easton on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:06AM (#27025238)
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.
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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by jeroenhd on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:13AM (#27026127)
Should've read this earlier. Hopefully they keep their sales pitch to a minimum in my country...
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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by wexq on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:13PM (#27026907)
FWIW, I've not had any spam whatsoever from them.
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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by Havoc on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:12AM (#27034790)
> 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

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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by popotamonga on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:50AM (#27024361)
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.
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