Best Cloud Regions for Western Europe — August 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Western Europe, based on all of August 2026's measurements across 1000+ cities worldwide. Published on the 1st of each month for the previous month. Compare AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Tencent, Huawei and Alibaba to pick the fastest region for Western Europe.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	AWS	Frankfurt (DE)	13.9ms	12.2ms	0.1%	108	81	1045
2	Azure	Frankfurt (DE)	14.1ms	12.2ms	0.1%	109	85	1078
3	GCP	Frankfurt (DE)	14.5ms	12.4ms	0.1%	108	82	1052
4	Tencent	Frankfurt (DE)	15.3ms	12.5ms	0.2%	106	78	1013
5	Oracle	Frankfurt (DE)	16.7ms	13.3ms	0.1%	108	81	1041
6	Alibaba	Frankfurt (DE)	15.7ms	13.9ms	0.1%	106	78	1012
7	Azure	Brussels (BE)	16.2ms	14.7ms	0.1%	109	81	1045
8	Oracle	Amsterdam (NL)	18.7ms	14.9ms	0.1%	108	82	940
9	Azure	Amsterdam (NL)	16.0ms	14.9ms	0.3%	107	78	1002
10	Azure	Paris (FR)	17.6ms	15.7ms	0.1%	109	79	974
11	AWS	Zurich (CH)	17.3ms	15.8ms	0.1%	108	81	1027
12	AWS	Paris (FR)	18.2ms	16.2ms	0.1%	108	80	962
13	Azure	Zurich (CH)	18.8ms	16.2ms	0.1%	109	81	998
14	GCP	Paris (FR)	18.7ms	16.7ms	0.4%	108	81	1007
15	GCP	Zurich (CH)	19.2ms	17.6ms	0.0%	108	81	1010
16	GCP	St. Ghislain (BE)	19.2ms	17.8ms	0.1%	108	83	1013
17	GCP	Eemshaven (NL)	18.5ms	17.8ms	0.1%	108	84	999
18	AWS	Milan (IT)	20.3ms	18.6ms	0.1%	103	79	930
19	Alibaba	Paris (FR)	19.7ms	18.7ms	0.4%	106	76	894
20	AWS	London (GB)	19.8ms	18.9ms	0.0%	108	78	920

Ranking month: August 2026 · Updated: 2026-11-03arrow_backBack to global leaderboards