Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks: AWS vs Azure vs GCP — 2026-04-17

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Daily Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks — 2026-04-17

Fastest cloud today: GCP

Real provisioning latency and reliability data collected via automated synthetic tests across AWS, Azure, and GCP. All results from live API calls — no estimates.

Summary

Cloud	Avg Latency	Min	Max	Success Rate
Azure	132,426ms	54,623ms	460,588ms	100.0%
GCP	130,315ms	10,058ms	265,460ms	100.0%

Regional Breakdown

Azure

eastus: 262,356ms avg | 100.0% success
northeurope: 57,814ms avg | 100.0% success
westus2: 77,108ms avg | 100.0% success

GCP

europe-north1: 89,724ms avg | 100.0% success
us-east1: 170,348ms avg | 100.0% success
us-west2: 110,856ms avg | 100.0% success

Methodology

Tests run via ProvisioningIQ — a continuous cloud benchmarking platform. Scenarios include Linux VM provisioning, container deployments, and network resource provisioning across multiple regions per cloud provider.

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