I can also testify that upgrading my account to pay-as-you-go has resulted in no issues for the last 6 months. One minor issue: I had to use my older email to pass through their fraud detection (cybersource?) to successfully upgrade the account. I was even able to get Oracle Support to unblock port 25 for me!
Use a declarative management system, setup billing alerts, and be very very cautious about the "always free" database offering. The latter is the real faustian bargin in my humble opinion. If we're talking compute only, OCI's pricing is very attractive.
I sympathize that combating abuse -- made worse by just how much Oracle's free offering trumps anything else out there -- while generating goodwill must be a very thin line to walk. Condolences for the Turkish student as well; once bitten , twice shy.
Use a declarative management system, setup billing alerts, and be very very cautious about the "always free" database offering. The latter is the real faustian bargin in my humble opinion. If we're talking compute only, OCI's pricing is very attractive.
I sympathize that combating abuse -- made worse by just how much Oracle's free offering trumps anything else out there -- while generating goodwill must be a very thin line to walk. Condolences for the Turkish student as well; once bitten , twice shy.