🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks
Window: May 12 – May 18, 2026 | Total runs: 189
GCP us-west2 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 9.5s.
At a glance
| Cloud | p50 | p95 | Reliability | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 20.8s | 27.9s | 100.0% | 63 |
| Azure | 1m 21s | 2m 13s | 98.4% | 63 |
| GCP | 9.6s | 12.9s | 100.0% | 63 |
Regional detail
AWS
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eu-north-1 |
20.6s | 26.0s | 100.0% |
us-east-1 |
21.3s | 27.5s | 100.0% |
us-west-2 |
20.8s | 31.2s | 100.0% |
Azure
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eastus |
1m 18s | 1m 51s | 100.0% |
northeurope |
1m 22s | 1m 49s | 100.0% |
westus2 |
1m 23s | 3m 27s | 95.2% |
GCP
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 |
11.9s | 13.3s | 100.0% |
us-east1 |
9.5s | 11.3s | 100.0% |
us-west2 |
9.5s | 9.7s | 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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