Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Aug 30 – Sep 05, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Aug 30 – Sep 05, 2026 | Total runs: 126

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 39.0s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	39.1s	48.5s	100.0%	63
GCP	2m 51s	3m 47s	100.0%	63

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	39.0s	40.2s	100.0%
us-east-1	40.4s	1m 11s	100.0%
us-west-2	39.1s	48.5s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	2m 34s	4m 16s	100.0%
us-east1	2m 56s	3m 45s	100.0%
us-west2	2m 51s	3m 24s	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.