Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 31 – Jun 06, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 31 – Jun 06, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-west2 sped up — virtual machines latency improved 37% week-over-week.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	35.8s	41.5s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 19s	1m 35s	100.0%	63
GCP	2m 08s	3m 09s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

• ▲ GCP us-west2: p50 latency 2m 07s (was 3m 22s, -37%)
• ▲ GCP europe-north1: p50 latency 1m 36s (was 2m 32s, -37%)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eu-north-1	35.6s	41.8s	100.0%
us-east-1	36.3s	41.6s	100.0%
us-west-2	35.8s	39.2s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
eastus	1m 16s	1m 31s	100.0%
northeurope	1m 18s	1m 30s	100.0%
westus2	1m 19s	1m 38s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
europe-north1	1m 36s	2m 52s	100.0%
us-east1	2m 29s	3m 09s	100.0%
us-west2	2m 07s	3m 04s	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.