I just created a Frankfurt based Oracle account and I have the same error message ( No shapes are available for this image. ...) for https://cloud.oracle.com/marketplace/application/76105157 for: Windows-Server-2022-Standard-Edition-VM-2023.09.28-0-QVWS-536.25 (11/8/2023) - default Windows-Server-2019-Standard-Edition-VM-Gen2-2023.06.13-0-QVWS-536.25 (7/21/2023) Windows-Server-2019-Standard-Edition-VM-Gen2-2023.02.15-0-QVWS-527.41-2 (5/30/2023) 2021.11.09-0-QVWS (1/13/2022) 2020.04.27-0-vws 2020-05-11 (5/13/2020) Only Windows-Server-2019-Standard-Edition-VM-Gen2-2021.11.09-0-QVWS-463.15 (2/11/2022) proposes: Shape: VM.Standard2.1 OCPU count: 1 Memory (GB): 15 Furthermore, Always Free-eligible only are assigned to: VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro VM.Standard.A1.Flex and are described as: This shape is either not compatible with the selected image, or not available in the current availability domain. So your method seems to involve a shape cost. https://cloud.oracle.com/marketplace/application/74835434/ has the issue no matter the Version selected before Launch Instance .