Best Cloud Regions for Australia — October 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Australia, 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.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	Oracle	Melbourne (AU)	26.5ms	19.4ms	0.3%	11	10	170
2	AWS	Melbourne (AU)	26.2ms	19.7ms	0.2%	11	10	166
3	GCP	Melbourne (AU)	27.2ms	21.4ms	0.3%	11	10	166
4	GCP	Sydney (AU)	28.2ms	22.2ms	0.1%	11	10	167
5	AWS	Sydney (AU)	25.0ms	22.3ms	0.1%	11	10	161
6	Azure	Sydney (AU)	27.7ms	22.6ms	0.2%	11	10	167
7	Oracle	Sydney (AU)	29.2ms	23.4ms	0.1%	11	10	166
8	Azure	Auckland (NZ)	52.1ms	46.7ms	0.0%	11	10	165
9	AWS	Auckland (NZ)	53.0ms	47.8ms	0.1%	11	10	91
10	Azure	Tokyo (JP)	146.3ms	123.0ms	0.4%	11	9	56
11	Azure	Osaka (JP)	142.8ms	129.0ms	0.0%	11	8	27
12	GCP	Tokyo (JP)	143.3ms	132.0ms	0.0%	11	9	84
13	GCP	Osaka (JP)	143.2ms	135.0ms	0.0%	11	10	56
14	AWS	Osaka (JP)	182.3ms	135.5ms	1.8%	10	9	33
15	Oracle	Osaka (JP)	224.6ms	137.0ms	0.3%	9	8	21
16	Azure	Hong Kong (HK)	141.3ms	137.0ms	0.1%	11	9	81
17	AWS	Tokyo (JP)	194.2ms	138.0ms	2.2%	11	9	37
18	Huawei	Hong Kong (HK)	168.7ms	143.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
19	Tencent	Tokyo (JP)	221.1ms	150.0ms	0.0%	9	8	21
20	GCP	Seoul (KR)	167.3ms	151.0ms	0.0%	11	10	46

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