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Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Sep 20 – Sep 26, 2026

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Sep 20 – Sep 26, 2026 | Total runs: 126

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 39.2s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 40.2s 51.0s 100.0% 63
GCP 3m 08s 4m 43s 98.4% 63

What changed this week

  • ▲ GCP europe-north1: reliability 100.0% (was 90.5%, Δ +9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 39.2s 41.4s 100.0%
us-east-1 41.4s 46.7s 100.0%
us-west-2 40.1s 52.6s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 3m 00s 4m 34s 100.0%
us-east1 3m 35s 4m 44s 100.0%
us-west2 2m 57s 4m 55s 95.2%

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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