Oracle DB Instance on oracle cloud free tier disappeared

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I have created an oracle free tier account a few months back and tried to log in one day and my db instance along with apex and all my work disappeared. I don't know how this happened and why my instance disappeared on the oracle cloud.

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pmdba On BEST ANSWER

From the documentation for Always Free Autonomous Databases: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/adbsa/autonomous-always-free.html#GUID-03F9F3E8-8A98-4792-AB9C-F0BACF02DC3E

Persistently inactive Always Free Autonomous Databases are detected and handled as follows:

  • After being inactive for 7 days, the database will be stopped automatically, preserving its stored data. Inactivity measurements leading up to 7 days are based on database connections. Successfully making a SQL*Net or HTTPS connection resets these measurements to zero.

  • A database that is automatically or manually stopped and stays inactive for 90 days, cumulative, may be reclaimed and permanently deleted.

If it has been more than 90 days since you last used your database, it is gone.

Note: Oracle would have sent you multiple e-mail warnings before doing this.

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Dr Govinddas akbari On

The same happened with my free tier account 144.24.112.30 ubuntu instance. It seems that their region and tenancies are crashing, and their engineers don't have mechanism to track sudden losses. Oracle is relatively new in cloud niche, so it is expected, compared to successful giants like aws and google cloud. At least disappearing instance, having live website is not exptected