Best Cloud Regions for United States — October 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to United States, 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 United States.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	GCP	Ashburn (US)	33.3ms	25.3ms	0.2%	143	92	404
2	Oracle	Chicago (US)	31.3ms	25.3ms	0.6%	78	52	131
3	AWS	N. Virginia (US)	32.4ms	25.9ms	0.4%	143	92	404
4	Oracle	Ashburn (US)	33.0ms	26.2ms	0.9%	141	91	404
5	Azure	Virginia (US)	33.6ms	27.0ms	0.6%	141	91	404
6	Alibaba	Virginia (US)	32.8ms	28.3ms	0.2%	141	91	400
7	Azure	Virginia 2 (US)	35.5ms	28.3ms	0.1%	84	56	147
8	AWS	Ohio (US)	34.9ms	29.5ms	0.2%	142	91	404
9	Tencent	Virginia (US)	39.8ms	29.6ms	0.8%	140	90	403
10	GCP	Columbus (US)	35.6ms	31.0ms	0.5%	141	91	402
11	Oracle	Toronto (CA)	38.1ms	32.3ms	0.2%	142	92	402
12	GCP	Toronto (CA)	38.4ms	33.8ms	0.2%	141	91	400
13	GCP	Dallas (US)	35.9ms	33.9ms	0.9%	142	91	405
14	GCP	Moncks Corner (US)	43.4ms	35.6ms	0.2%	143	92	404
15	GCP	Council Bluffs (US)	38.5ms	35.8ms	0.6%	142	92	404
16	GCP	Montreal (CA)	39.9ms	35.8ms	0.1%	143	92	403
17	Azure	Iowa (US)	36.5ms	36.2ms	0.0%	141	92	402
18	AWS	Montreal (CA)	41.2ms	36.3ms	0.7%	141	91	404
19	Azure	Toronto (CA)	40.6ms	37.5ms	0.7%	142	91	405
20	Oracle	Montreal (CA)	41.0ms	38.8ms	0.7%	141	91	403

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