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Oracle is halving its Always Free ARM compute tier effective August 18, 2026, reducing the allowance from 4 OCPUs/24GB to 2 OCPUs/12GB per tenancy, requiring immediate action from any organizations using larger or multiple ARM instances to avoid automatic termination. This change signals Oracle's shift in free-tier strategy and underscores the risk of building production workloads on permanently free cloud services without clear long-term guarantees. IT leaders should reassess their free-tier infrastructure dependencies and develop migration plans for workloads that exceed the new limits or transition to paid tiers for mission-critical systems.