Sign-up for "Always Free" Oracle Cloud Tier

During this difficult time of the global pandemic, every organization are trying best to keep their users engaging virtually. Some provide free access to their learning content while others are organizing a webinar with the subject except to share the knowledge. But according to me, Oracle is an exception in this case. They not only provided free access to a wide range of online learning contents but also provided six free certifications exam worth 800 USD for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database. While online content available is still the best material for the preparation of these certifications exam, Oracle's Always Free service which is a part of Oracle Cloud Free Tier is something that you can leverage to perform hands-on-labs for the preparation. 

This Always Free Service includes some essential IaaS and PaaS technologies which run on Oracle’s high-performance mission-critical cloud infrastructure that too at free of cost and enables Students, Developers and anyone to build, test and deploy on Oracle Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Database. I really believe everyone should sign-up for this Always Free service.  

Let's take the first step towards Oracle Cloud journey by signing up for Free Cloud Tier. 

1. Go to https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ and click on Start for Free button. 


2. Select your country, enter Email Id and click the Next button. 


3.Enter account details such as Account Type, Cloud Account Name, Home Region along with your personal details like your First Name, Last Name, Address and Mobile number for verification. 
One thing to note here is that the selection of your Home Region is very important because Always Free Service is only available in your home region, and you cannot change it once the account is created. Click on Regions Link and make sure you review global data centers where Always Free services are available, and select the home region that works best for you. Choose home region which is closest to your customers/users for lowest latency and highest performance.

4. You will receive a verification code on mobile number that you have provided in pevious step. Enter the code and click Verify Code button.

5. Enter Password and click Next for the Payment option

6. Here you need to provide your payment information. 

You won't be charged for Always Free Service. However 1 USD will be charged to test the card. Enter your credit card details and click Complete Sign-Up button.
7. That's all you need to create an Always Free Cloud Account. Once your account is created, you will get redirect to sign in page. You will also receive an email with your account information.
8. At this moment, Always Free Service may not be provisioned to you and in few minutes you will receive another mail once your Oracle Cloud Account is fully provisioned.
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy.
Happy Learning!!

















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sorting Order in Oracle APEX Classic Report

Image
In APEX, the sorting option for a classic report is divided into two aspects:  How records will be sorted when the report first renders? Whether the end-user can change the sort order interactively by clicking the column header. A classic report can be developed using either the static query or the dynamic query and the sorting behavior is different for both options. First, we will see the sorting behavior for the report based on the static query.  The below classic report is based on the static query and displays all the records of the EMP_DUP table. For this blog, I created EMP_DUP which is the same as the EMP table but contains duplicate records. The sorting aspects for this report are determined by the properties in each column's  sorting  section. The below image shows the  sorting  section for  JOB. The Default Sequence  property determines the initial sort order. Each column that participates in the initial sort order will have a unique sequence number that will determine
Read more

Multi-select List Item in Oracle APEX | Checkbox Group

Image
In my previous post , I explained how to use Shuttle Item. In this post, I will explain how to use another multi-select item Checkbox Group.  In Oracle APEX, Checkbox Group displays multiple values as checkboxes and enables end-user to select multiple values. Like the Shuttle item, the Checkbox Group also stores values of checked boxes in a colon-delimited string. We need to provide a list of values for values displayed as checkboxes.   How to create a Checkbox Group?  Create a VARCHAR2 column having a large size as it stores a colon-delimited string. Navigate to an APEX page and create a page item in a region that is based on the database table. Change its type to "Checkbox Group". Go to the "List of Values" section in the property section and select the list of values type. Here I selected "Static Values".  Click on the "Static Values" and a popup will open. Add Display Value and Return Value in this popup as shown below.  Enter the number of
Read more

OTP based Authentication in Oracle APEX using Twilio

Image
Recently, a new requirement came up to implement One Time Password (OTP) based authentication in Oracle APEX. In this, the user will enter his mobile number on the login page and will receive an OTP via SMS. The user will then enter the OTP on the login page and be able to authenticate himself in the APEX app.  When I started working on this requirement, first I identified all the steps that I need to implement for the solution.  Below are the steps that I followed: 1. Generate the OTP and temporarily store it in a database table. 2. Send the generated OTP to the user by integrating REST API to send the SMS 3. Validate the user entered OTP against the OTP that is stored in the table and authenticate the user. 4. Create a Custom Authentication Scheme. 5. Modify the login page. Let's understand each step in more detail. Step 1:  Generate the OTP and temporarily store it in a database table.  First, create a table to temporarily store the OTP for the validation. Here I created a si
Read more