Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Aug 23 – Aug 29, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Aug 23 – Aug 29, 2026 | Total runs: 138

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 38.1s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	38.9s	42.4s	100.0%	69
GCP	2m 34s	3m 59s	100.0%	69

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	38.1s	40.4s	100.0%
us-east-1	39.1s	40.6s	100.0%
us-west-2	39.1s	44.3s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	2m 25s	3m 59s	100.0%
us-east1	3m 10s	4m 34s	100.0%
us-west2	2m 29s	3m 16s	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.