I happened across a YouTube video about the “Always Free” virtual servers that Oracle makes available in the Oracle Cloud. This offer provides a collection of ARM and AMD resources that can be configured in various ways to make up a set of virtual machines. Of most interest to me was the ability to configure an Ubuntu Linux VM with 4 ARM CPUs, 24 GB RAM, and 200 GB storage. For free. Now that’s useful.
Quoting their documentation:
All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure accounts (whether free or paid) have a set of resources that are free of charge for the life of the account. These resources display the Always Free label in the Console.
Using the Always Free resources, you can provision a virtual machine (VM) instance, an Oracle Autonomous Database, and the networking, load balancing, and storage resources needed to support the applications that you want to build. With these resources, you can do things like run small-scale applications or perform proof-of-concept testing.
From https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm
The video linked above walks you through the setup process. Worked fine for me.
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