🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks
Window: May 19 – May 25, 2026 | Total runs: 189
Azure northeurope had a rough week for serverless containers — reliability dropped 9.5 points to 90.5%.
At a glance
| Cloud | p50 | p95 | Reliability | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 20.8s | 27.0s | 100.0% | 63 |
| Azure | 1m 21s | 1m 54s | 96.8% | 63 |
| GCP | 9.9s | 12.6s | 100.0% | 63 |
What changed this week
- ▼ Azure northeurope: reliability 90.5% (was 100.0%, Δ -9.5 pp)
Regional detail
AWS
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eu-north-1 |
22.3s | 26.9s | 100.0% |
us-east-1 |
19.4s | 38.8s | 100.0% |
us-west-2 |
20.8s | 24.9s | 100.0% |
Azure
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
eastus |
1m 27s | 2m 38s | 100.0% |
northeurope |
1m 19s | 1m 47s | 90.5% |
westus2 |
1m 21s | 1m 45s | 100.0% |
GCP
| Region | p50 | p95 | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 |
11.7s | 12.8s | 100.0% |
us-east1 |
9.5s | 11.0s | 100.0% |
us-west2 |
9.7s | 10.6s | 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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