oracle cloud infrastructure - Cannot find the Always Free Eligible VM Instance when creating it

Question

I wanted to create a Always Free Eligible VM Instance (VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro) on the Oracle Cloud, but it's not on my list.

And when I check my limit for VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro in "Governance > Limits, Quotas and Usage", it say 0.

How can I create one? My Home Region is Canada Southeast (Montreal), ca-montreal-1.

My account's trial is not over yet. Should I wait till my trial is over to create it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65851167/cannot-find-the-always-free-eligible-vm-instance-when-creating-it

Answer 1

As per the Always Free website, at any time you can have up to the following:

• Two Oracle Autonomous Databases with powerful tools like Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle SQL Developer
• Two Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute VMs; Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications

If you already are at capacity for this, then you would not be able to add an additional. Further details of Always Free resources can be found here - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/resourceref.htm