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Managed Postgres Databases Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 14 – May 20, 2026

🗄️ Managed Postgres Databases — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 14 – May 20, 2026 | Total runs: 189

Azure westus2 led managed postgres databases provisioning this week at p50 4m 35s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 4m 58s 5m 23s 100.0% 63
Azure 5m 31s 5m 48s 98.4% 63
GCP 10m 36s 12m 06s 100.0% 63

What changed this week

  • ▲ GCP us-east1: reliability 100.0% (was 81.0%, Δ +19.0 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 4m 53s 5m 13s 100.0%
us-east-1 5m 07s 6m 30s 100.0%
us-west-2 4m 58s 5m 18s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus2 5m 31s 6m 34s 95.2%
northeurope 5m 32s 5m 37s 100.0%
westus2 4m 35s 5m 37s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 10m 42s 11m 21s 100.0%
us-east1 10m 04s 11m 36s 100.0%
us-west2 10m 17s 12m 30s 100.0%

Methodology

Managed Postgres instance provisioning, measured from create-DB API call to the database accepting a connection. Includes teardown timing for completeness.

All data is collected via ProvisioningIQ — a continuous benchmarking platform that runs synthetic provisioning tests and publishes the results. No estimates, no vendor data; every number above came from a real provisioning attempt.

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