By Bobby Borisov
Publication Date: 2026-06-14 22:16:00
Oracle has quietly reduced the resources available under the Oracle Cloud Free Tier’s Always Free Ampere A1 Compute offering, reducing the documented quota from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM.
Free Oracle Cloud Tier is Oracle’s entry-level cloud offering that allows users to run a limited number of OCI services for free, including select compute, storage, networking and database resources
According to Oracle’s current Always free resource documentationOCI Ampere A1 Compute instances now include 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month for VM.Standard.A1.Flex instances. Oracle says this equates to 2 OCPUs and 12GB of memory for Always Free leases.
That’s half of the previous Ampere A1 Always Free tier, which was commonly known as 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month, which equates to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM.
The change is important because Oracle Cloud’s Ampere A1 instances are widely deployed by…
