I just had a zoom call with a Product Manager in the OCI Compute team. They had sent a survey link, and I had responded to it. So, he emailed me for some more feedback. They are mainly looking at these things:
- Making instances go to hibernate mode if the account/ resources are at ~0% use for some time, but they do not want to harass people. Apparently, people are using OCI and forgetting about these instances. (I told him 6 months would be a fair timeframe to send a warning email).
- Allowing a freemium model to pay some amount (he suggested me 50 cents or 1 dollar) to access more block storage, etc. But they'll let us set a hard limit for that.
- Giving access to powerful machines for a limited amount of time.
- Combining the two free instances to get more resources.
- Access to support. But it may be limited to 1 ticket per quarter/ 6 months/ 1 year as it is super expensive to maintain the support team.