We deployed the same video platform on five clouds and timed it: 5 minutes to 20, and the slow ones are slow for a reason
"How long does it take to deploy?" sounds like a trivia question until you're the one watching a progress bar, wondering whether it's stuck. So we stopped guessing and measured it.
We built a tool, ov-cloud-tester, that deploys the same self-hosted WebRTC video stack on all five major clouds — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and DigitalOcean — in three topologies (single node, elastic, and high-availability), tears it down cleanly, and times the whole thing. We ran it many times per cloud and looked at both the averages and every individual run. The headline: standing up a working deployment ranges from about 5 minutes to 20, DigitalOcean is consistently the fastest and Oracle the heaviest — and the why, plus which clouds are actually predictable, turns out to be more interesting than the ranking.