Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Aug 09 – Aug 15, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Aug 09 – Aug 15, 2026 | Total runs: 189

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 38.2s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	38.9s	43.6s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 15s	1m 49s	100.0%	63
GCP	3m 06s	4m 36s	100.0%	63

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	38.2s	40.1s	100.0%
us-east-1	39.6s	56.4s	100.0%
us-west-2	38.2s	42.4s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 20s	1m 42s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 13s	1m 22s	100.0%
westus2	1m 17s	2m 15s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	3m 03s	4m 51s	100.0%
us-east1	3m 14s	4m 24s	100.0%
us-west2	3m 08s	4m 23s	100.0%

Methodology

Synthetic Linux VM provisioning tests with public IP allocation, run continuously across multiple regions. Measured latency is wall-clock time from API request to a successful TCP probe on port 22.

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.