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Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 10 – May 16, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 10 – May 16, 2026 | Total runs: 189

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 33.5s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 34.8s 38.9s 100.0% 63
Azure 1m 17s 1m 54s 100.0% 63
GCP 3m 12s 4m 50s 100.0% 63

What changed this week

  • ▲ GCP us-east1: reliability 100.0% (was 85.7%, Δ +14.3 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 33.5s 35.6s 100.0%
us-east-1 35.2s 39.7s 100.0%
us-west-2 35.1s 38.9s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus 1m 17s 1m 55s 100.0%
northeurope 1m 17s 1m 43s 100.0%
westus2 1m 20s 1m 40s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 2m 34s 3m 59s 100.0%
us-east1 4m 00s 5m 05s 100.0%
us-west2 2m 36s 3m 59s 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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