Oracle Cloud Australia has start from Sydney in August 2019 and Oracle Gen 2 Cloud Melbourne and Sydney region has started at the end of 2020.
Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers.
Oracle Cloud has 2 commercial data-center locations in Australia for all cloud services – as you know Melbourne and Sydney. Another closer data-center location to Australia is Singapore in South East Asia.
Oracle Cloud mainly provide a) Database hosting, b) VPS (KVM), c) Dedicated Servers, d) Public Cloud services (AI,ML and DL etc.), e) Managed Bare Metal and other common cloud services. Note: crypto mining is not encouraged and banded.
Oracle Cloud has tried to completed with AWS and they provide a fair deal in pricing on their cloud services.
Oracle Cloud accept common types of credit cards.
Oracle Cloud Free Tier allows you to sign up for an Oracle Cloud account which provides a number of Always Free services and a Free Trial with US$300 of free credit to use on all eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services for up to 30 days. The Always Free services are available for an unlimited period of time.