Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Aug 13 – Aug 19, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Aug 13 – Aug 19, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-west2 sped up — virtual machines latency improved 25% week-over-week.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	39.1s	43.7s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 16s	2m 06s	96.8%	63
GCP	3m 00s	4m 22s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

• ▲ GCP us-west2: p50 latency 2m 45s (was 3m 41s, -25%)
• ▼ Azure westus2: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	38.8s	41.1s	100.0%
us-east-1	39.4s	46.5s	100.0%
us-west-2	39.1s	41.3s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 22s	1m 59s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 15s	1m 40s	100.0%
westus2	1m 10s	2m 15s	90.5%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	3m 12s	4m 50s	100.0%
us-east1	3m 14s	4m 00s	100.0%
us-west2	2m 45s	3m 42s	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.