Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Aug 16 – Aug 22, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Aug 16 – Aug 22, 2026 | Total runs: 177

Azure westus2 had a rough week for virtual machines — reliability dropped 13.3 points to 86.7%.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	38.4s	42.3s	100.0%	66
Azure	1m 17s	1m 50s	95.6%	45
GCP	2m 49s	4m 27s	100.0%	66

What changed this week

• ▼ Azure westus2: reliability 86.7% (was 100.0%, Δ -13.3 pp)
• ▲ GCP us-west2: p50 latency 2m 20s (was 3m 08s, -25%)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	38.0s	41.1s	100.0%
us-east-1	39.2s	42.4s	100.0%
us-west-2	38.5s	41.3s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 23s	2m 38s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 15s	1m 39s	100.0%
westus2	1m 14s	1m 28s	86.7%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	3m 09s	4m 48s	100.0%
us-east1	3m 01s	3m 59s	100.0%
us-west2	2m 20s	4m 00s	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.