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Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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630 points 2bluesc | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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legitster ◴[31 Mar 25 17:59 UTC] No.43537821[source]▶
If you are already a customer of Oracle, I can't imagine this matters to you. You did not choose Oracle because it was a good product and they are a good company. You are a customer of Oracle because there was a backroom executive deal with the Devil. No one is surprised or outraged or even has any choices.
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_fat_santa ◴[31 Mar 25 18:59 UTC] No.43538482[source]▶
I've started seeing ads for Oracle OCI in some podcasts I listen to so I think they are starting to see if they can attract customers outside of their "enterprise sales process".

I'm not sure who those ads are supposed to appeal to besides the podcasts hosts raking in the ad dollars.

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brirec ◴[31 Mar 25 19:07 UTC] No.43538567[source]▶
I haven’t seen the ads, but Oracle Cloud is definitely the public cloud provider with the most generous free tier. That’s not to say you should use and trust them, but I can see why many would.
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999900000999 ◴[31 Mar 25 19:12 UTC] No.43538632[source]▶
You pay in other ways.

I understand if you have absolutely no money, but even then repeatedly trying to provision a server and getting a error- something like no capacity available - isn't a fun time.

Whatever, I'll pay 7$ a month to not deal with that.

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1. nisa ◴[31 Mar 25 22:01 UTC] No.43540446[source]▶
You can automate it using their API and some Python. It's like a puzzle game and I'm personally thankful for the free tier, it's pretty cool if you max it out you have multiple IPv4 addresses, IPv6 prefixes and so on - the machines boot via UEFI, you can run nixos and ZFS on them, you have a serial console via ssh/vnc and at least in Germany they have good connectivity and 10tb Traffic is plenty. Using it for something serious? Probably not. But for tinkering it's pretty cool and interesting if you enjoying some small quests. Running incus and some Kubernetes stuff on an arm box and 24gb memory and 200gb SSD is at least 10-20€ elsewhere.
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2. CrimsonChapulin ◴[01 Apr 25 01:48 UTC] No.43542009[source]▶
I had a script calling their apis to setup one of their free arm instances after I deleted the one I had to change the OS (something I had done before).

After running every hour for several months I gave up (always out of capacity and it was impossible to change the region on free tier back then). They either had a bug that still showed my account as using the deleted resources or no capacity, both which seem out of place in a “cloud” infrastructure.