🖥️ 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.…