Best Cloud Regions for Southern Europe — October 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Southern Europe, 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 Southern Europe.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	GCP	Milan (IT)	31.7ms	29.6ms	1.4%	86	77	782
2	AWS	Milan (IT)	32.3ms	30.0ms	1.2%	85	79	781
3	GCP	Frankfurt (DE)	32.4ms	30.5ms	1.1%	72	72	604
4	AWS	Frankfurt (DE)	33.0ms	30.6ms	1.0%	85	78	629
5	Tencent	Frankfurt (DE)	34.3ms	30.8ms	1.7%	67	67	438
6	Azure	Frankfurt (DE)	32.2ms	31.1ms	1.1%	86	79	678
7	Oracle	Frankfurt (DE)	33.5ms	31.3ms	1.4%	68	65	431
8	AWS	Zurich (CH)	32.6ms	31.4ms	1.0%	85	78	821
9	GCP	Zurich (CH)	34.2ms	31.4ms	1.3%	70	69	604
10	Azure	Vienna (AT)	33.0ms	31.5ms	0.9%	63	68	525
11	Azure	Zurich (CH)	33.4ms	32.1ms	0.7%	86	76	741
12	Alibaba	Frankfurt (DE)	40.7ms	32.8ms	3.2%	50	54	367
13	Azure	Milan (IT)	34.2ms	32.8ms	0.9%	71	72	631
14	AWS	Paris (FR)	36.2ms	33.1ms	1.4%	85	75	693
15	Oracle	Zurich (CH)	35.3ms	33.1ms	1.2%	63	64	413
16	Oracle	Marseille (FR)	39.7ms	34.2ms	4.7%	80	66	312
17	Azure	Paris (FR)	36.8ms	34.9ms	1.4%	86	74	645
18	GCP	Paris (FR)	38.0ms	35.5ms	0.6%	83	76	663
19	Oracle	Turin (IT)	38.0ms	35.8ms	1.6%	79	69	335
20	Alibaba	Paris (FR)	38.2ms	35.9ms	1.3%	83	75	481

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