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Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks: AWS vs Azure vs GCP — 2026-04-21

Daily Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks — 2026-04-21

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 32,218ms 18,238ms 101,717ms 100.0%
Azure 73,144ms 56,211ms 114,595ms 100.0%
GCP 84,032ms 9,518ms 249,020ms 100.0%

Regional Breakdown

AWS

  • eu-north-1: 27,601ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-east-1: 40,758ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-west-2: 28,294ms avg | 100.0% reliability

Azure

  • eastus: 73,294ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • northeurope: 64,969ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • westus2: 81,168ms avg | 100.0% reliability

GCP

  • europe-north1: 81,376ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-east1: 79,639ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-west2: 91,082ms 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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