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For the cloud enthusiast who wants to explore and start the journey to the Oracle Cloud, Oracle offers free version of various IaaS and PaaS services. In this post, I will discuss how to provision Autonomous Database, VM and Load Balancer on Oracle Cloud. What is Free Trial Oracle provides you with $300 of cloud credits that are valid for up to 30 days when you sign-up. You may spend these credits on any eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service (OCI). After your trial ends, your account remains active. There is no interruption to the availability of the Always Free Resources you have provisioned. You can terminate and re-provision Always Free resources as needed. Paid resources that were provisioned with your credits during your free trial are reclaimed by Oracle unless you upgrade your account. What is always Free resources All OCI accounts (whether free or paid) have a set of resources that are free of charge for the...

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS is the most used cloud platform in the world and as most of the jobs are focused on cloud based technologies it makes perfect sense to get certified on AWS cloud. The first entry level certification is called as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. You can find the details of various certifications on the AWS page https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/ In the following blogs I will provide information on various training's and preparations required for this entry level certification. Main topics for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam are: AWS Infrastructure Compute Storage Database Cloud Migration Network Content Delivery CDN Security Identity Compliance Costing AWS Free Tier AWS has a free tier which provides access to various AWS products. You can use it to explore more than 60 products. Three different types of free offers are available depending on the product used. Check the...