🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks
Window: Jun 07 – Jun 13, 2026 | Total runs: 189
GCP europe-north1 virtual machines slowed down +39% this week.
At a glance
| Cloud | p50 | p95 | Reliability | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 36.5s | 44.3s | 100.0% | 63 |
| Azure | 1m 19s | 1m 42s | 100.0% | 63 |
| GCP | 2m 30s | 3m 30s | 100.0% | 63 |
What changed this week
- ▼ GCP europe-north1: p50 latency 2m 14s (was 1m 36s, +39%)
Regional detail
AWS
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eu-north-1 |
35.8s | 37.8s | 100.0% |
us-east-1 |
37.3s | 57.6s | 100.0% |
us-west-2 |
35.9s | 44.4s | 100.0% |
Azure
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eastus |
1m 18s | 1m 38s | 100.0% |
northeurope |
1m 18s | 1m 43s | 100.0% |
westus2 |
1m 20s | 1m 37s | 100.0% |
GCP
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 |
2m 14s | 3m 44s | 100.0% |
us-east1 |
2m 42s | 3m 27s | 100.0% |
us-west2 |
2m 19s | 3m 01s | 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.
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