🖥️ Virtual Machines — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks
Window: Aug 09 – Aug 15, 2026 | Total runs: 189
AWS eu-north-1 led virtual machines provisioning this week at p50 38.2s.
At a glance
| Cloud | p50 | p95 | Reliability | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 38.9s | 43.6s | 100.0% | 63 |
| Azure | 1m 15s | 1m 49s | 100.0% | 63 |
| GCP | 3m 06s | 4m 36s | 100.0% | 63 |
Regional detail
AWS
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eu-north-1 |
38.2s | 40.1s | 100.0% |
us-east-1 |
39.6s | 56.4s | 100.0% |
us-west-2 |
38.2s | 42.4s | 100.0% |
Azure
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eastus |
1m 20s | 1m 42s | 100.0% |
northeurope |
1m 13s | 1m 22s | 100.0% |
westus2 |
1m 17s | 2m 15s | 100.0% |
GCP
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 |
3m 03s | 4m 51s | 100.0% |
us-east1 |
3m 14s | 4m 24s | 100.0% |
us-west2 |
3m 08s | 4m 23s | 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.
