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Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks: AWS vs Azure vs GCP — 2026-04-25

Daily Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks — 2026-04-25

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 34,842ms 19,273ms 157,504ms 100.0%
Azure 68,126ms 53,260ms 107,039ms 100.0%
GCP 84,588ms 8,491ms 223,950ms 100.0%

Regional Breakdown

AWS

  • eu-north-1: 27,592ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-east-1: 48,851ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-west-2: 28,082ms avg | 100.0% reliability

Azure

  • eastus: 69,777ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • northeurope: 61,516ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • westus2: 73,086ms avg | 100.0% reliability

GCP

  • europe-north1: 95,681ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-east1: 83,620ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-west2: 74,462ms 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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