🖥️ 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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