Oracle Cloud Free Tier

What are Always Free cloud services ?

• It is always free cloud services for free

1. Infrastructure

• 2 Compute virtual machines with 1/8 OCPU (1GB memory each)
• 2 Block Volumes Storage (total 100GB)
• 10 GB Object Storage
• 10 GB Archive Storage
• Resource Manager

2. Databases

• Your choice of Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing or Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Two databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage.

3. Management

• Monitoring: 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints.
• Notifications: 1 million sent through https per month, 1000 sent through email per month.
• Service Connector Hub: 2 service connectors.

4. Additional Services

• Load Balancer : 1 instance, 10 Mbps
• Outbound Data Transfer : 10TB per Month

Oracle Cloud Advantage over Amazon Web Services

1. Create Account

1.1 Homepage

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI)

2. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) Setting

• [Oracle] OCI Getting Started
• [Oracle] Setting Up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

  2.1. Create Instance

• Menu -> Compute -> Instances
  

2.1.1. Select “Create Instance” menu

2.1.2. Placement and hardware

• Change Image
  

2.1.3. Select platform image

• Select Image
  

2.1.4. Networking

• Create new virtual cloud network
  

2.1.5. Add SSH keys

• Select “Paste public keys”
• Generate SSH key by “PuTTy Key Generator”
  

2.1.5.1. Download PuTTy Key Generator

https://www.putty.org/

• Download puttygen.exe

2.1.5.2. Generate and Save SHH key

• Generate a public/private key pair
• Save public key
• Save private key
• It is recommended to Set up “Key passphrase”

2.1.6. Boot volume

• Specify a custom boot volume size
• “Oracle Cloud Free Tier” provide 2 machines(Instances) and total 100GB storage size
  

2.2. Instance Setting

2.2.1. Check Instance Status

• Wait for Provisioning status to Running status a few minutes
  

2.2.2. Firewall Rules

• Click Virtual Cloud Network
  

• Click Subnet
  

• Click Security Lists
  

• Click Add Ingress Rules
  – In initial state, only ssh port(22) is allowed.
  

• Add Specific Ingress Rule
  

2.3. Connect to OCI Instance

• Connect to OCI Instance by SSH client ( PuTTy, Xshell, MobaXterm etc..)

2.3.1 PuTTy

• PuTTy Configuration

• Click “Open”

• Please login as the user “ubuntu” rather than the user “root”.