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VM.Standard.A1.Flex bandwidth capped at ~48 Mbps instead of 4 Gbps — eu-paris-1

3545656Apr 29 2026

Hi, My Oracle Cloud free tier instance has been capped at ~48 Mbps for the past few weeks, down from the expected 4 Gbps. No changes were made on my end.

Instance specs:

  • Shape: VM.Standard.A1.Flex
  • OCPUs: 4
  • RAM: 24 GB
  • Network bandwidth (advertised): 4 Gbps
  • Region: eu-paris-1

OS: Ubuntu 6.17.0-1011-oracle #11~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP aarch64

Speedtest result (run from the instance itself): Server: Scaleway - Paris (id: 61933) ISP: Oracle Cloud Download: 48.71 Mbps Upload: 48.16 Mbps Latency: 1.15 ms (idle), packet loss: 0%

The cap is constant, not intermittent. Latency is perfect (1ms idle), packet loss is 0%, the instance is fully up to date, and there is no unusual bandwidth consumption on my end. It appeared overnight with no changes on my side.

This looks like a hard 50 Mbps throttle applied at the infrastructure level. Is this a known issue in eu-paris-1? Has anyone else experienced this recently, or is there a way to open a support ticket without a paid support plan?

Thanks

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