When we tried to do a pilot with their cloud we couldn't even sign-up. None of the corporate credit cards were accepted.

In addition to that the form basically only worked in Edge. We emailed support, they changed something on the backend. It still did not work. We gave up.

In retrospective that was a very clear warning sign that their priorities were misguided. I'm glad we did not waste any further time and effort on them.

I signed up for Oracle Cloud. I couldn’t get any of the free trial options to work due to capacity limits. I couldn’t get my payment method added so I could pay for real servers.

Then they terminated my free trial early with no explanation. I tried to add a payment method again and it didn’t work.

It turned into a bigger joke when Oracle sales people started emailing me to ask how my trial was going. They must have been given a list of email addresses and no information about the accounts. I would ask them for help getting my account unlocked or adding a payment method, they would send me emails for a couple weeks saying they were looking into it, then they’d ghost me.

Then a month later a new sales rep would email me and start the process over.

I checked Reddit and there were dozens of stories with the same experience.

Every couple of years I try Oracle Cloud and nothing ever really works. It feels like it was built by people who literally cannot see the final result of what they work on. Signing up, adding cards, clicking links in e-mails -- nothing worked! Nothing has ever reliably worked!

I hate Oracle with a passion for everything they've done throughout the years, I hope they burn in hell. Of course I don't want that for most of the people working there, but those making the decisions? Kindly go the way of your cloud and vanish from relevance.

Oracle Cloud sometimes feels like an elaborate prank that I'm not in on. I know people and companies on AWS (obviously), Azure, Google Cloud, Hetzner, CloudFlare's various PaaS offerings, etc., but I can't name a single thing running on Oracle Cloud. Somebody out there is clearly using but I'll be damned if I know who it is.

That is crazy. One of the main rules of business is to always make it as easy as possible for customers to give you money.

Good to know it's not only problematic on the free tier. I wanted to sign up to get the free credits but couldn't finish the setup. I tried again now and it accepted/charged my card ($1 verification test) but then after the account was created it said I need a credit card?

They couldn't integrate a payment provider and expect to build out the data centers for AGI?

Uh, good luck guys.