Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks: AWS vs Azure vs GCP — 2026-04-18

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Daily Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks — 2026-04-18

Fastest cloud today: Azure

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	70,588ms	55,461ms	114,594ms	100.0%
GCP	94,038ms	8,064ms	228,095ms	100.0%

Regional Breakdown

Azure

eastus: 72,187ms avg | 100.0% success
northeurope: 67,876ms avg | 100.0% success
westus2: 71,700ms avg | 100.0% success

GCP

europe-north1: 95,787ms avg | 100.0% success
us-east1: 108,188ms avg | 100.0% success
us-west2: 78,140ms 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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