Best Cloud Regions for Australia — September 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Australia, based on all of September 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.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	Oracle	Melbourne (AU)	27.0ms	19.5ms	0.0%	5	10	84
2	AWS	Melbourne (AU)	25.7ms	19.7ms	0.0%	5	10	85
3	AWS	Sydney (AU)	25.3ms	22.1ms	0.2%	5	10	82
4	GCP	Sydney (AU)	27.5ms	22.2ms	0.1%	5	10	82
5	Azure	Sydney (AU)	26.8ms	22.3ms	0.0%	5	10	82
6	GCP	Melbourne (AU)	28.7ms	22.4ms	0.1%	5	10	82
7	Oracle	Sydney (AU)	28.0ms	23.2ms	0.1%	5	10	82
8	Azure	Auckland (NZ)	51.1ms	46.7ms	0.0%	5	10	82
9	GCP	Tokyo (JP)	143.3ms	121.0ms	1.2%	5	10	38
10	Azure	Tokyo (JP)	140.0ms	123.0ms	0.0%	5	10	37
11	GCP	Osaka (JP)	153.0ms	127.0ms	1.1%	5	10	37
12	Azure	Hong Kong (HK)	139.4ms	137.0ms	0.0%	5	10	37
13	Oracle	Tokyo (JP)	185.0ms	139.0ms	0.0%	5	10	37
14	Alibaba	Tokyo (JP)	182.6ms	140.0ms	0.0%	5	10	38
15	AWS	Tokyo (JP)	176.6ms	149.0ms	1.4%	5	10	37
16	Azure	Seoul (KR)	172.7ms	150.0ms	0.0%	5	10	37
17	GCP	Seoul (KR)	168.8ms	151.0ms	1.1%	5	10	37
18	Tencent	Tokyo (JP)	189.1ms	151.0ms	0.2%	5	10	37
19	AWS	Osaka (JP)	182.4ms	156.0ms	0.2%	5	10	37
20	GCP	Hong Kong (HK)	169.2ms	163.0ms	0.0%	5	10	37

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