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I decide to do some posts about Oracle Always free offering, how it works, how you setup things, a few things we can do with that and maybe more. I think is fair for us to start by what’s it and what you need to do to get one.

Basically Always Free is a services for anyone that wants to try the world’s first self-driving database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for an unlimited time. The ideas is let people explore the full functionality of Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Compute VMs, Block and Object Storage, and Load Balancer, all of the essentials for developers to build complete applications on Oracle Cloud. 

Oracle’s Free Tier program has two components:

• Always Free services, which provide access to Oracle Cloud services for an unlimited time
• Free Trial, which provides $300 in credits for 30 days to try additional services and larger shapes

The new Always Free program includes the essentials users need to build and test applications in the cloud: Oracle Autonomous Database, Compute VMs, Block Volumes, Object and Archive Storage, and Load Balancer. Specifications include:

• 2 Autonomous Databases (Autonomous Data Warehouse or Autonomous Transaction Processing), each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage
• 2 Compute VMs, each with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory
• 2 Block Volumes, 100 GB total, with up to 5 free backups
• 10 GB Object Storage, 10 GB Archive Storage, and 50,000/month API requests
• 1 Load Balancer, 10 Mbps bandwidth
• 10 TB/month Outbound Data Transfer
• 500 million ingestion Datapoints and 1 billion Datapoints for Monitoring Service
• 1 million Notification delivery options per month and 1000 emails per month

Well, if you ask me this is far better than install an Oracle XE in your machine and configure everything there for you to learn or to create some small app. In fact, if you want to learn, it’ll far better if you start learning in an cloud environment since everyday we have more and more companies migrating to cloud.

Ok, but what do you need to do to get one? In fact is very easy, you just need to access this link and click in the Start for Free button. After that you have to fill a short form where you need to inform:

• Your email and user information like address and cellphone
• You need to validate your cellphone through message (Oracle will send a code to your cell)
• You need to choose the region you’ll going to have you OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
  • This needs to be as close as possible as your real region to decrease latency and improve network performance
  • Some regions are not available for always free (it’s written next to the region name if is available or not)
• And you need to add a credit card to your account
  • You’ll not be charged but you may see 1 Dollar/Euro/… getting charged but it’ll be return
  • Also, Revolut card don’t work, you need a proper credit card.

And that’s it, Oracle will create your account (in fact takes around 15 minutes until you receive a email with further instructions [Bare in mind that because the COVID-19, it’s taking several days to create a new account]). After you receive your email, you can login in your dashboard and start to create your network, Disk, Database, VM’s and more.

We’ll see how to configure a database in my next post. I hope you enjoy this and see you soon.

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