After nearly 2 years of running an OpenCanary in Oracle Cloud, it seems they decided to kill the bird.
No warning, no messages – just an uptime monitor suddenly informing me that both e2-micro instances in Oracle Cloud were down.
At just before 15:00 CET on March 6th, 2024, my collection of OpenCanary instances shrank from 3 to 2. Gone with the culling in Oracle was also my Caddy reverse proxy.
I cannot imagine their SOC or NOC thinking today was a special day in terms of traffic but there was a slight onslaught of VNC connections hitting the host during today that might have woken them up. 1000 connections per hour on VNC is not unusual….
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The most annoying factor is that Oracle Cloud just cut the hosts without warning. I have reached out to Oracle via a long-time friend to find out why the host was killed by them.
RIP, Armada.
Except of course not….!