2026 Cloud VM Performance Benchmark Analysis: Comparing 44 VM Families Across Multiple Regions
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Summary
A comprehensive 2026 cloud VM benchmarking analysis comparing performance across 44 VM families from major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) across multiple regions. The article reveals that one new CPU dominates top-end performance more clearly than in previous years, with testing conducted from October 2025 onward. The benchmark scope was expanded to include more VM families and regional performance variations to account for inconsistencies in instance performance.
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· 4 pulledTime for the (not exactly) yearly cloud compute VM comparison.
I started testing back in October 2025, but the benchmarking scope was increased, not just due to more VM families tested (44), but also due to testing the instances over more regions to attain a possible range of performance, as in many cases not all instances are created equal.
I will not spoil much if I tell you that there is one new CPU that dominates the top-end results more clearly than any previous year.
Published: Feb 27, 2026 on dev.to by Dimitrios Kechagias
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