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Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Aug 25 – Aug 31, 2026

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Aug 25 – Aug 31, 2026 | Total runs: 207

GCP us-west2 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 10.2s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 20.1s 24.3s 100.0% 69
Azure 1m 23s 2m 32s 100.0% 69
GCP 11.3s 17.0s 100.0% 69

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 20.2s 24.4s 100.0%
us-east-1 17.1s 22.2s 100.0%
us-west-2 20.9s 23.7s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus 1m 25s 3m 06s 100.0%
northeurope 1m 20s 1m 58s 100.0%
westus2 1m 26s 2m 05s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 12.1s 13.1s 100.0%
us-east1 10.7s 18.9s 100.0%
us-west2 10.2s 11.3s 100.0%

Methodology

Cold-start serverless container deployments measured from API submit to a successful HTTP probe. Tests run continuously across multiple regions per provider.

All data is collected via ProvisioningIQ — a continuous benchmarking platform that runs synthetic provisioning tests and publishes the results. No estimates, no vendor data; every number above came from a real provisioning attempt.

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