What provider still has decent free tier?
Oracle. 4 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD. It’s arm64 but nowadays that doesn’t really matter.
That can't possibly be free?
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
Only caveat I see is they reserve the right to delete underutilized/ idling instances
That’s generous but Oracle is very generous.
Which region were you able to create this in? They seem to be out of capacity all the time in EU.