Oracle has reduced the Always Free Ampere A1 Compute allowance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of RAM. The change took effect on June 15, 2026. Oracle did not publish a blog post, send customer notifications, or make any public announcement. The documentation was simply updated, and users discovered the new limits when their instances were shut down or when community members noticed the changed numbers on Oracle's website.