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Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 01 – May 07, 2026

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 01 – May 07, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-east1 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 9.0s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 20.6s 30.1s 100.0% 63
Azure 1m 10s 1m 57s 98.4% 63
GCP 9.6s 12.6s 100.0% 63

What changed this week

  • ▲ Azure eastus: reliability 100.0% (was 88.9%, Δ +11.1 pp)

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 21.6s 24.7s 100.0%
us-east-1 21.2s 33.6s 100.0%
us-west-2 20.6s 24.8s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus 1m 05s 1m 49s 100.0%
northeurope 1m 15s 1m 41s 95.2%
westus2 1m 14s 1m 57s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 11.8s 13.4s 100.0%
us-east1 9.0s 10.4s 100.0%
us-west2 9.3s 10.0s 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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