Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 28 – Jul 04, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 28 – Jul 04, 2026 | Total runs: 198

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 36.0s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	36.9s	46.3s	100.0%	66
Azure	1m 12s	1m 32s	100.0%	66
GCP	2m 18s	3m 38s	100.0%	66

What changed this week

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

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	36.0s	38.9s	100.0%
us-east-1	37.8s	42.5s	100.0%
us-west-2	36.8s	47.3s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 09s	1m 27s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 12s	1m 24s	100.0%
westus2	1m 21s	1m 43s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	1m 54s	2m 57s	100.0%
us-east1	2m 32s	4m 01s	100.0%
us-west2	2m 24s	3m 26s	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.