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Hey guys how are you? Today I’ll continue to talk about the Oracle Always free cloud offering and I’ll try to summarize what you can do after your account is set up. If you want to know how to setup you account you can find it HERE.

After you receive an email saying everything is set you can login in your account and you’ll see a screen like this:

This is the main dashboard. Here’s where you’ll create your Database, your VM’s, convert your account to paid, manage your account, ask for help, etc… Let’s start with the main dashboard:

• (1) Quick Actions: Here you’ll find the most important links as quick actions.
  • (2)Compute: This is where you can create a VM to be used with your databases. You can use it to install tools and develop whatever you want inside the your environment.
  • (3)Networking: Here’s where you set up your cloud network. This is the first step you must do to ensure your VM and databases will be in the same network and reaching each other.
  • (4)Autonomous Transaction Processing: This is where you create a transaction database.
  • (5)Autonomous Data Warehouse: This is where you can create your Data Warehouse database.
  • (6)Search: A quick way to view all your resources.
• (7)Account Center: Here’s a quick place to manage your account and see how many credits you have and billing information
• (8)Main Menu: This is the main menu where you have access to everything that you can do inside your Cloud.

• (9)Top Bar: Where you can change regions, in case you have more than one region, access the Cloud Shell (for OS commands), see the help, ask for help in the chat, change language and see your profile.
• (10)Start Exploring: Here’s a place where you can find articles to help you start setting up your environment.
• (11)What’s new: And finally here’s where you can see news about Oracle cloud, like releases and things that will be added.

One important thing to add here is that before you add anything or create anything, look for the “Always Free Eligible” logo or description to be sure you’ll not buying anything by mistake. Now about the main menu:

• Core Infrastructure: Here’s where you can set your VM’s, networks and storage options.
• Database: Here’s where you can Set your databases options, backups and Servers (VM or Bare metal).
• Data and AI: Here’s where you can set your Big Data and AI environment.
• Solution and Platform: Here’s where you can set your Analytics cloud services, Integrations, monitoring and marketplace.
• More Oracle Cloud Services: Here’s where you have other cloud services.
• Governance and Administration: And here is where you can administrate your environment like provisioning security, Account Management, Identity and Governance.

As you can see there’s a lot that can be done, but we’ll concentrate in the “Always Free” content, but the following list summarizes the Oracle Cloud Always Free-eligible resources that you can provision in your tenancy:

• Compute (up to two instances)
• Autonomous Database (up to two database instances)
• Load Balancing (one load balancer)
• Block Volume (up to 100 GB total storage)
• Object Storage (up to 20 GiB)
• Vault (up to 20 keys and up to 150 secrets)

In the next post we’ll setup our environment. See you soon guys.

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