unfortunately the 2gb RAM is the one thing I feel constrained by - I mostly use it with code-server and even the default TypeScript language server is a bit too much sometimes.

Then you're just waiting around for the lawyers to figure out how to screw you - safer to just avoid it all together.

That's an insanely generous offer - they seemingly also let you split it up into 4VMs if you want. Any gotchas other than Oracle generally being icky?

I would seriously consider moving a couple small Linodes I use for work over that way. I quite like Linode, but free is compelling.

This is great - thanks very much for mentioning it. Creating an account now! ARM might be tricky but for zero dollars might be some fun.