🐳 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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