#Oracle seems to have silently changed its free tier from 4 Ampere vCPUs w/ 24 gigs of RAM to 2 vCPUs and 12 gigs of RAM without any communication sent to the users of that free tier. If you have an existing instance running that's above the new limits they just terminate it for free accounts and bill you if it's a PAYG one. Feels pretty slimy to be doing this quietly when it can result in data loss, but I suppose non-paying customers are worthless to them anyway.