Best Cloud Regions for Australia and New Zealand — October 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Australia and New Zealand, based on all of October 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 Australia and New Zealand.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	GCP	Sydney (AU)	33.9ms	28.4ms	0.1%	27	20	376
2	Azure	Sydney (AU)	32.1ms	28.8ms	0.2%	27	20	376
3	Azure	Auckland (NZ)	32.4ms	29.0ms	0.1%	27	20	376
4	AWS	Sydney (AU)	31.2ms	29.1ms	0.2%	27	20	370
5	Oracle	Sydney (AU)	33.0ms	29.3ms	0.1%	27	20	375
6	AWS	Auckland (NZ)	32.8ms	29.5ms	0.2%	26	19	203
7	Oracle	Melbourne (AU)	37.8ms	32.9ms	0.2%	27	20	379
8	AWS	Melbourne (AU)	37.7ms	33.4ms	0.2%	27	20	374
9	GCP	Melbourne (AU)	39.8ms	34.5ms	0.2%	27	20	375
10	GCP	Tokyo (JP)	145.6ms	135.5ms	0.1%	26	18	169
11	GCP	Osaka (JP)	144.4ms	136.5ms	0.1%	26	19	192
12	Azure	Osaka (JP)	151.1ms	136.5ms	0.0%	25	16	55
13	Azure	Tokyo (JP)	157.4ms	142.8ms	0.3%	26	17	118
14	Azure	Hong Kong (HK)	150.9ms	145.0ms	0.1%	26	18	157
15	AWS	Osaka (JP)	171.8ms	145.8ms	0.9%	14	13	40
16	AWS	Tokyo (JP)	174.3ms	146.5ms	1.1%	22	17	63
17	GCP	Changhua County (TW)	163.6ms	151.5ms	0.1%	26	19	122
18	Huawei	Hong Kong (HK)	187.7ms	154.0ms	0.0%	5	5	5
19	GCP	Seoul (KR)	171.9ms	159.0ms	0.0%	26	18	85
20	Azure	Phoenix (US)	160.6ms	159.0ms	0.2%	25	17	70

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