Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks: AWS vs Azure vs GCP — 2026-04-20

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Daily Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks — 2026-04-20

Fastest cloud today: AWS

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
AWS	33,482ms	20,410ms	100,418ms	100.0%
Azure	70,979ms	52,189ms	94,673ms	100.0%
GCP	93,117ms	8,513ms	281,406ms	100.0%

Regional Breakdown

AWS

eu-north-1: 29,574ms avg | 100.0% reliability
us-east-1: 39,855ms avg | 100.0% reliability
us-west-2: 31,017ms avg | 100.0% reliability

Azure

eastus: 72,812ms avg | 100.0% reliability
northeurope: 66,951ms avg | 100.0% reliability
westus2: 73,174ms avg | 100.0% reliability

GCP

europe-north1: 90,851ms avg | 100.0% reliability
us-east1: 83,788ms avg | 100.0% reliability
us-west2: 104,712ms avg | 100.0% reliability

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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