🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks
Window: Sep 06 – Sep 12, 2026 | Total runs: 126
GCP us-east1 virtual machines slowed down +29% this week.
At a glance
| Cloud | p50 | p95 | Reliability | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 39.3s | 42.2s | 100.0% | 63 |
| GCP | 3m 11s | 4m 42s | 100.0% | 63 |
What changed this week
- ▼ GCP us-east1: p50 latency 3m 47s (was 2m 56s, +29%)
Regional detail
AWS
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eu-north-1 |
38.9s | 42.3s | 100.0% |
us-east-1 |
39.5s | 43.4s | 100.0% |
us-west-2 |
39.3s | 41.2s | 100.0% |
GCP
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 |
1m 59s | 4m 00s | 100.0% |
us-east1 |
3m 47s | 4m 47s | 100.0% |
us-west2 |
3m 05s | 4m 33s | 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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