What the Oracle documentation actually says about the 2/12 changes
Reading through all these threads, and I’m honestly a bit shocked. Guys, let me break this down for you in simple terms so the folks at Oracle can stop laughing at us and get back to work.
For accounts that haven't verified a credit card (i.e., haven't shown the system $100), Oracle has introduced hard quotas of 2 cores and 12 GB of RAM. These accounts are technically blocked from taking any more than that—this is a crucial detail. They received a notification explicitly telling them to bring their instance parameters in line with these new quotas.
Every other account that has the technical capability to provision more than 2/12 gets the first 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM completely free. It says so in the documentation, very clearly and explicitly. To prevent people from panicking, Oracle even pushed a notification to the dashboard stating there would be no changes to billing.
First, you guys scared each other, then you managed to scare the AIs, which are now hallucinating and spewing total nonsense. Meanwhile, the actual situation is as simple as it gets.