Sign Up for an Oracle Cloud Free-Trial Account:

• First, register for a free Oracle Cloud trial account.

• To verify your card, you will be charged $1, which Oracle refunds immediately.

Upgrade to a Pay-As-You-Go Account:

• After your initial sign-up, upgrade your account to “Pay as you go.”

• During this process, you’ll be charged $100, but Oracle will refund that fee right away.

Register a Free VPS Instance:

• With your upgraded account, you can set up a free VPS instance.

• The free instance comes with Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory.

• You can use this setup as a single virtual machine or split it into up to four VMs.

Explore Other Always-Free Options:

• Oracle offers additional free resources, so be sure to check out more options here: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

Important Note on Free Compute Instances:

• Oracle may reclaim idle Always-Free compute instances.

• A virtual machine or bare metal compute instance is considered idle if, over a 7-day period, it meets all of the following conditions:

– The 95th percentile of CPU utilization is less than 20%.

– Network utilization remains below 20%.

– Memory utilization is under 20% (this rule applies only to A1 shapes).