Virtual Machines Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 03 – May 09, 2026

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🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 03 – May 09, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP europe-north1 virtual machines slowed down +75% this week.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	34.5s	41.7s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 19s	1m 53s	100.0%	63
GCP	3m 07s	4m 14s	95.2%	63

What changed this week

▼ GCP europe-north1: p50 latency 3m 07s (was 1m 46s, +75%)
▼ GCP us-east1: p50 latency 3m 37s (was 2m 48s, +29%)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	34.5s	35.5s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	34.5s	50.7s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	34.7s	40.7s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 26s	1m 54s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 18s	1m 23s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 19s	2m 08s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	3m 07s	4m 01s	100.0%
`us-east1`	3m 37s	4m 22s	85.7%
`us-west2`	2m 51s	4m 07s	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.