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[varkey]

Is that available in all regions? @royalroy

 

[Manoj Mathew]

Thanks for the OCI Arm update. They actually allow up to 4 cores and 24GB memory for the Arm instance in the always free tier, that's really generous! I could create an Arm instance in addition to 2 already existing free tier vms.

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/arm-based-cloud-computing-is-the-next-big-thing-introducing-arm-on-oci

 

[Elavarasan]

@varkey For me it is not available at India south (Hyderabad) region. @Manoj Mathew is that available for all regions?

 

[Manoj Mathew]

Available in Mumbai. Should be available in at least all main regions like Ashburn, London etc.

 

[Elavarasan]

Available in regions Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai) , UK South (London), UK West (Newport), US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix).

 

[varkey]

I was able to launch an A1 Flex 4 core 24 GB in Hyderabad just now. I did it over the phone so not sure if I missed something. I'll take a look in detail from my laptop later.

 

[royalroy]

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All tenancies also get 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory Always Free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm-based processor.

Edit:

Oh, and BTW, they have launched IPv6 in all regions. Each IP is brand new, clean and works with all services as of now, including Netflix.

 

[iwantfreeinternet]

Netflix?

 

[royalroy]

Yes, Netflix hasn't flagged those IPs as of now, though I'm pretty sure they'll do it soon. But be sure not to use dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 when using Netflix. Use only IPv6. They'll notice your datacenter IPv4 and throw up a proxy error.

 

[royalroy]

@varkey I used 24 GB RAM ARM VM extensively for the last 1-2 days to test. But now it seems like a 6 GB VM gets deployed whatever I choose. Can you please verify?

Edit: Thanks, it's solved. I was choosing the OS after choosing the shape. So, the shape got automatically changed to the lowest version.