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Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks: AWS vs Azure vs GCP — 2026-05-07

Daily Cloud Provisioning Benchmarks — 2026-05-07

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 28,521ms 19,608ms 37,497ms 100.0%
Azure 75,760ms 56,367ms 119,329ms 100.0%
GCP 81,793ms 8,877ms 253,145ms 94.4%

Regional Breakdown

AWS

  • eu-north-1: 27,405ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-east-1: 30,701ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-west-2: 27,458ms avg | 100.0% reliability

Azure

  • eastus: 81,924ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • northeurope: 71,092ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • westus2: 74,265ms avg | 100.0% reliability

GCP

  • europe-north1: 62,664ms avg | 100.0% reliability
  • us-east1: 95,530ms avg | 83.3% reliability
  • us-west2: 89,474ms 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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