Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 17 – May 23, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 17 – May 23, 2026 | Total runs: 189

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 34.6s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	35.5s	40.5s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 24s	1m 55s	100.0%	63
GCP	2m 51s	4m 06s	100.0%	63

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	34.6s	37.1s	100.0%
us-east-1	37.1s	42.7s	100.0%
us-west-2	35.9s	38.1s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 20s	1m 51s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 16s	1m 52s	100.0%
westus2	1m 30s	1m 56s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	2m 07s	3m 15s	100.0%
us-east1	3m 02s	4m 23s	100.0%
us-west2	3m 07s	3m 43s	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.