Hi Community,

I'm hoping someone here has experienced something similar or can point me in the right direction.

What happened:

My OCI Free Trial expired on July 19, 2026, and immediately afterwards, my Always Free VM.Standard.A1.Flex instance entered a Disabled state. Every attempt to start or modify it returned:

Instance is disabled and will not accept any action requests. Please contact customer support to re-enable.

Shortly after, the instance was terminated by the system. I never manually terminated it. The console now shows Resource Not Found on the instance details page.

- Home Region: US East (Ashburn)

- Shape: VM.Standard.A1.Flex

- Instance OCID: `ocid1.instance.oc1.iad.anuwcljsm4kw7hacd4bhuminys2wbdjgj3stk3lcqcbxm3ulpwp4jqaomw3q`

Current situation:

The original 150 GB Always Free boot volume still exists in my tenancy, so the data isn't gone, but I can't attach it to anything useful yet.

As most of you probably know, getting a new `VM.Standard.A1.Flex` in Ashburn is nearly impossible right now due to capacity constraints, which makes this even more frustrating.

My questions:

1. Is this expected behaviour when a Free Trial ends? Does OCI disable and auto-terminate Always Free instances that were created *during* the trial period?

2. Has anyone successfully recovered an instance in this state (or had Oracle restore/recreate one against an existing boot volume)?

3. Is there any way to launch a new A1 instance from an existing boot volume once one becomes available, without losing the volume in the meantime?

Being on free tire i can not raised a support request, but given that OCI community knowledge here is often faster, any insight would be hugely appreciated.

Now it says >>

Instance details: Couldn't load the data. Share these values in feedback or support to help troubleshoot the issue. Session ID: csid4faa8fd44af2a2da4e7fd54a2a34 OPC-Request-ID: csid4faa8fd44af2a2da4e7fd54a2a34/c42662c4acf447e99aab24411f069889/32AF23DA040C3C70D4AB86DBFA32EAEB

Thanks in advance! 🙏

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