# Oracle cloud free tier feedback

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420>\
**Category:** Offtopic\
**Created:** [November 18, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420 "2023-11-18T20:35:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rdavis120](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@rdavis120](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdavis120)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420/1 "2023-11-18T20:35:58Z")

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Does anyone have any experience (positive or negative) of running julia on the oracle cloud [free](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/) tier (4 arm cores / 24GB ram). The generous memory allocation would obviously be helpful for Julia.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420/2 "2023-11-18T21:27:41Z")

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Are you sure? 24 GB _RAM_? That is an unusual configuration…

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**Author:** ![rdavis120](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@rdavis120](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdavis120)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420/3 "2023-11-18T21:40:44Z")

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- 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs

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**Author:** ![gbaraldi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gbaraldi/32/22101_2.png) [@gbaraldi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gbaraldi)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420/4 "2023-11-19T17:23:30Z")

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I’ve used it to test some ARM things with no issue. It should all just work though I think you can ask for the OS to be Ubuntu. Which is probably better tested.

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**Author:** ![sschmidhuber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sschmidhuber/32/13349_2.png) [@sschmidhuber](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sschmidhuber)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/oracle-cloud-free-tier-feedback/106420/5 "2023-11-19T21:49:25Z")

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I like the usability of AWS and Google Cloud more, but the free tier machine from Oracle is on a completely other level than what Google (or AWS) is offering.  
It is really great to get such a powerful machine for free. I just looked into it, it is up for 230 days, executing a small julia web application and a julia data pipeline. 👍

You also get a public IP for your machine for free, however I’m not sure if it is static, maybe it can change on reboot.