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Managed Postgres Databases Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jul 02 – Jul 08, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:00:07 +0000

🗄️ Managed Postgres Databases — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jul 02 – Jul 08, 2026 | Total runs: 189

AWS eu-north-1 led managed postgres databases provisioning this week at p50 5m 12s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	5m 17s	5m 31s	100.0%	63
Azure	5m 34s	6m 30s	98.4%	63
GCP	10m 43s	12m 14s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

▲ Azure westus2: reliability 100.0% (was 90.9%, Δ +9.1 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	5m 12s	5m 23s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	5m 18s	5m 28s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	5m 18s	5m 38s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus2`	5m 34s	6m 34s	100.0%
`northeurope`	5m 34s	5m 39s	95.2%
`westus2`	5m 33s	5m 35s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	10m 50s	12m 33s	100.0%
`us-east1`	11m 06s	11m 47s	100.0%
`us-west2`	9m 56s	11m 17s	100.0%

Methodology

Managed Postgres instance provisioning, measured from create-DB API call to the database accepting a connection. Includes teardown timing for completeness.

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.

Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 30 – Jul 06, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:00:07 +0000

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 30 – Jul 06, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-east1 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 9.2s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	21.5s	35.8s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 17s	2m 06s	100.0%	63
GCP	10.0s	12.4s	100.0%	63

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	21.7s	22.8s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	18.2s	36.6s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	22.9s	35.4s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 21s	2m 08s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 12s	1m 49s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 17s	1m 54s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	11.9s	12.5s	100.0%
`us-east1`	9.2s	12.2s	100.0%
`us-west2`	9.7s	10.4s	100.0%

Methodology

Cold-start serverless container deployments measured from API submit to a successful HTTP probe. Tests run continuously across multiple regions per provider.

Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 28 – Jul 04, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:00:08 +0000

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 28 – Jul 04, 2026 | Total runs: 198

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 36.0s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	36.9s	46.3s	100.0%	66
Azure	1m 12s	1m 32s	100.0%	66
GCP	2m 18s	3m 38s	100.0%	66

What changed this week

▲ GCP us-east1: reliability 100.0% (was 90.5%, Δ +9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	36.0s	38.9s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	37.8s	42.5s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	36.8s	47.3s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 09s	1m 27s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 12s	1m 24s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 21s	1m 43s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	1m 54s	2m 57s	100.0%
`us-east1`	2m 32s	4m 01s	100.0%
`us-west2`	2m 24s	3m 26s	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.

Managed Postgres Databases Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 25 – Jul 01, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:00:08 +0000

🗄️ Managed Postgres Databases — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 25 – Jul 01, 2026 | Total runs: 198

Azure northeurope led managed postgres databases provisioning this week at p50 4m 34s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	5m 13s	5m 46s	100.0%	66
Azure	5m 32s	5m 37s	93.9%	66
GCP	10m 26s	12m 14s	100.0%	66

What changed this week

▲ Azure eastus2: reliability 100.0% (was 90.5%, Δ +9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	5m 13s	5m 23s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	5m 23s	5m 48s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	5m 08s	5m 29s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus2`	5m 33s	6m 29s	100.0%
`northeurope`	4m 34s	5m 35s	90.9%
`westus2`	5m 33s	5m 35s	90.9%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	11m 10s	12m 12s	100.0%
`us-east1`	10m 26s	13m 05s	100.0%
`us-west2`	10m 06s	11m 37s	100.0%

Methodology

Managed Postgres instance provisioning, measured from create-DB API call to the database accepting a connection. Includes teardown timing for completeness.

Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 23 – Jun 29, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:00:08 +0000

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 23 – Jun 29, 2026 | Total runs: 198

GCP us-west2 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 9.5s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	21.0s	29.0s	100.0%	66
Azure	1m 21s	2m 03s	100.0%	66
GCP	10.3s	13.1s	100.0%	66

What changed this week

▲ Azure eastus: reliability 100.0% (was 90.5%, Δ +9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	20.9s	27.1s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	21.7s	35.4s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	20.7s	24.9s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 32s	2m 00s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 12s	1m 38s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 23s	2m 19s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	11.8s	13.1s	100.0%
`us-east1`	9.9s	14.4s	100.0%
`us-west2`	9.5s	10.4s	100.0%

Methodology

Cold-start serverless container deployments measured from API submit to a successful HTTP probe. Tests run continuously across multiple regions per provider.

I ran 1,852 cloud provisioning tests. GCP takes twice as long as AWS to spin up a Postgres database.

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:10:23 +0000

I've been running automated provisioning benchmarks across AWS, Azure, and GCP for over a year. Every few hours, a script provisions a fresh managed PostgreSQL instance on each cloud, waits until it's actually accepting connections, records the time, then tears it down.

No marketing numbers. No theoretical limits. Just real API calls, wall-clock time, and 1,852 completed test runs across 9 regions.

Here's what I found.

The numbers

Cloud	Region	Provision p50	Provision p95	Destroy p50	Runs	Success %
AWS	eu-north-1	298s	319s	123s	206	100%
AWS	us-east-1	305s	334s	118s	207	100%
AWS	us-west-2	303s	315s	118s	206	100%
Azure	eastus2	331s	451s	132s	203	95.6%
Azure	northeurope	289s	339s	106s	207	95.7%
Azure	westus2	330s	341s	124s	206	96.1%
GCP	europe-north1	642s	760s	117s	205	100%
GCP	us-east1	625s	743s	105s	206	95.6%
GCP	us-west2	615s	758s	105s	206	100%

p50 = median. p95 = 95th percentile. All times in seconds.

What jumped out

GCP Cloud SQL is consistently 2x slower than AWS RDS

AWS provisions in ~5 minutes at median. GCP takes ~10 minutes. Every time. Across all three regions I test.

This isn't a fluke or a bad day — it's the baseline. GCP Cloud SQL instances are healthy when they come up, they just take significantly longer to become available.

For one-off provisioning this is barely noticeable. For pipelines that spin up ephemeral databases — CI/CD environments, test isolation, staging automation — a 6-minute penalty per instance compounds fast.

AWS RDS hit 100% success across 619 runs

Not 99.9%. Not 99.5%. 100.0%.

Zero failures across us-east-1, us-west-2, and eu-north-1 over the entire dataset. That's a genuinely impressive reliability record for an operation that involves storage allocation, network config, parameter group application, and backup initialization all happening in sequence.

Azure fails roughly 1 in 25 attempts

Azure Database for PostgreSQL runs at 95.6–96.1% success rate. That's ~4% failure rate, or about 1 in 25 attempts.

The failures are typically transient and succeed on retry. But if you're running Terraform without retry logic, you'll hit these. Worth building lifecycle retry blocks or a wrapper script if you're on Azure.

Interesting counterpoint: Azure northeurope at 289s p50 is actually the fastest single region in the entire dataset — faster than all three AWS regions. Speed isn't Azure's problem. Reliability is.

Watch the p95 numbers, not just p50

The gap between p50 and p95 tells you how predictable a cloud is.

AWS us-east-1: p50 is 305s, p95 is 334s. Gap of ~30 seconds. You can write a Terraform timeout with confidence.

GCP us-east1: p50 is 625s, p95 is 743s. Gap of ~2 minutes. And the p95 destroy time in us-west2 hits 684 seconds — longer than it takes AWS to provision. That's a long time to wait for a teardown in a CI pipeline.

Azure eastus2 has the widest provision spread: p50 of 331s but p95 of 451s, a 2-minute gap.

How the tests work

Each test run:

Calls the cloud provider API via Terraform to create a managed PostgreSQL instance
Polls until the provider signals the instance is available (accepting connections)
Records wall-clock time from API call to availability
Issues destroy and records teardown time
Pushes results to a central PostgreSQL database

Instance config is kept consistent: single-node, general-purpose instance class, 20GB SSD, no read replicas. Tests run 24/7 on a rotating schedule to capture time-of-day variance.

Everything is tagged piq-d1-* and destroyed immediately. No data is written to the test instances.

Live data

This is part of ProvisioningIQ — a continuous benchmarking project I run through AppsWireless. The dashboard updates automatically as new test runs complete.

If you want to dig into the regional trends or track how these numbers shift over time, the live dashboard is at provisioningiq.appswireless.com/dashboard.

Full write-up with more context: How Long Does It Actually Take to Provision a PostgreSQL Database on AWS, Azure, and GCP?

What's next

I'm tracking VM provisioning (V1) and serverless containers (C1) with the same methodology — cross-workload comparisons are on the roadmap.

Next up for databases: Aurora PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, and Azure HorizonDB (D2). Curious whether the premium tiers are actually faster to provision or just faster once running.

Would be curious if anyone else has instrumented provisioning times in their own pipelines — do these numbers match what you're seeing?

Tags: cloud, aws, azure, googlecloud, devops

Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 21 – Jun 27, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:00:08 +0000

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 21 – Jun 27, 2026 | Total runs: 189

AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 36.1s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	36.8s	40.8s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 15s	1m 32s	100.0%	63
GCP	2m 33s	3m 33s	96.8%	63

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	36.1s	38.6s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	37.2s	41.4s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	36.8s	40.8s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 21s	1m 39s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 11s	1m 25s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 23s	1m 32s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	1m 49s	2m 44s	100.0%
`us-east1`	2m 41s	4m 02s	90.5%
`us-west2`	2m 45s	3m 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.

Managed Postgres Databases Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 19 – Jun 25, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:55:10 +0000

🗄️ Managed Postgres Databases — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 19 – Jun 25, 2026 | Total runs: 189

Azure eastus2 had a rough week for managed postgres databases — reliability dropped 9.5 points to 90.5%.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	5m 14s	5m 28s	100.0%	63
Azure	5m 33s	6m 34s	88.9%	63
GCP	10m 33s	12m 16s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

▼ Azure eastus2: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)
▼ Azure northeurope: reliability 85.7% (was 95.2%, Δ -9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	5m 12s	5m 23s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	5m 18s	5m 28s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	5m 09s	5m 19s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus2`	5m 33s	6m 34s	90.5%
`northeurope`	4m 36s	5m 45s	85.7%
`westus2`	5m 34s	6m 34s	90.5%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	10m 54s	11m 41s	100.0%
`us-east1`	11m 15s	12m 17s	100.0%
`us-west2`	10m 15s	12m 28s	100.0%

Methodology

Managed Postgres instance provisioning, measured from create-DB API call to the database accepting a connection. Includes teardown timing for completeness.

Managed Postgres Databases Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 18 – Jun 24, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:00:05 +0000

🗄️ Managed Postgres Databases — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 18 – Jun 24, 2026 | Total runs: 189

Azure eastus2 had a rough week for managed postgres databases — reliability dropped 9.5 points to 90.5%.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	5m 13s	5m 28s	100.0%	63
Azure	5m 33s	6m 34s	88.9%	63
GCP	10m 28s	12m 06s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

▼ Azure eastus2: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)
▼ Azure northeurope: reliability 85.7% (was 95.2%, Δ -9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	5m 12s	5m 23s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	5m 18s	5m 38s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	5m 08s	5m 19s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus2`	5m 33s	6m 34s	90.5%
`northeurope`	5m 33s	5m 46s	85.7%
`westus2`	5m 34s	6m 34s	90.5%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	10m 54s	11m 40s	100.0%
`us-east1`	11m 15s	12m 07s	100.0%
`us-west2`	10m 15s	12m 28s	100.0%

Methodology

Managed Postgres instance provisioning, measured from create-DB API call to the database accepting a connection. Includes teardown timing for completeness.

Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 16 – Jun 22, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:00:04 +0000

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 16 – Jun 22, 2026 | Total runs: 189

Azure eastus had a rough week for serverless containers — reliability dropped 9.5 points to 90.5%.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	21.5s	33.8s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 16s	2m 23s	96.8%	63
GCP	10.0s	12.0s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

▼ Azure eastus: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	20.7s	22.7s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	23.3s	47.0s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	22.9s	26.9s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 19s	3m 01s	90.5%
`northeurope`	1m 10s	1m 27s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 19s	2m 01s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	11.5s	12.3s	100.0%
`us-east1`	9.2s	11.0s	100.0%
`us-west2`	9.4s	10.9s	100.0%

Methodology

Cold-start serverless container deployments measured from API submit to a successful HTTP probe. Tests run continuously across multiple regions per provider.

Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 14 – Jun 20, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:00:04 +0000

🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 14 – Jun 20, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-east1 had a rough week for virtual machines — reliability dropped 9.5 points to 90.5%.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	36.1s	43.6s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 12s	1m 29s	100.0%	63
GCP	2m 36s	3m 54s	96.8%	63

What changed this week

▼ GCP us-east1: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	35.8s	36.7s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	37.3s	50.8s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	36.0s	44.0s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 14s	1m 27s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 07s	1m 20s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 15s	1m 29s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	2m 13s	3m 27s	100.0%
`us-east1`	3m 21s	3m 49s	90.5%
`us-west2`	2m 38s	4m 02s	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.

Managed Postgres Databases Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Jun 11 – Jun 17, 2026

ProvisioningIQ - appswireless — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:05 +0000

🗄️ Managed Postgres Databases — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Jun 11 – Jun 17, 2026 | Total runs: 189

Azure northeurope led managed postgres databases provisioning this week at p50 4m 46s.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	5m 03s	5m 30s	100.0%	63
Azure	5m 32s	6m 34s	95.2%	63
GCP	10m 17s	11m 47s	98.4%	63

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	5m 01s	5m 04s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	5m 08s	5m 32s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	4m 58s	5m 39s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus2`	5m 32s	6m 38s	100.0%
`northeurope`	4m 46s	5m 57s	95.2%
`westus2`	5m 32s	5m 41s	90.5%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	10m 28s	11m 10s	100.0%
`us-east1`	10m 15s	11m 37s	95.2%
`us-west2`	10m 15s	12m 59s	100.0%

Methodology

Managed Postgres instance provisioning, measured from create-DB API call to the database accepting a connection. Includes teardown timing for completeness.