Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 14 – Jun 20, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 14 – Jun 20, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-east1 had a rough week for virtual machines — reliability dropped 9.5 points to 90.5%.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	36.1s	43.6s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 12s	1m 29s	100.0%	63
GCP	2m 36s	3m 54s	96.8%	63

What changed this week

• ▼ GCP us-east1: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	35.8s	36.7s	100.0%
us-east-1	37.3s	50.8s	100.0%
us-west-2	36.0s	44.0s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 14s	1m 27s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 07s	1m 20s	100.0%
westus2	1m 15s	1m 29s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	2m 13s	3m 27s	100.0%
us-east1	3m 21s	3m 49s	90.5%
us-west2	2m 38s	4m 02s	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.