🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks
Window: Sep 13 – Sep 19, 2026 | Total runs: 126
GCP europe-north1 virtual machines slowed down +37% this week.
At a glance
| Cloud | p50 | p95 | Reliability | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 40.1s | 45.5s | 100.0% | 63 |
| GCP | 3m 00s | 4m 04s | 96.8% | 63 |
What changed this week
- ▼ GCP europe-north1: p50 latency 2m 43s (was 1m 59s, +37%)
- ▼ GCP europe-north1: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)
Regional detail
AWS
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eu-north-1 |
38.9s | 40.5s | 100.0% |
us-east-1 |
40.3s | 1m 01s | 100.0% |
us-west-2 |
40.2s | 45.6s | 100.0% |
GCP
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 |
2m 43s | 3m 37s | 90.5% |
us-east1 |
3m 25s | 4m 05s | 100.0% |
us-west2 |
2m 52s | 4m 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.
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