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Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 26 – Jun 01, 2026

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 26 – Jun 01, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-east1 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 9.3s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 21.3s 24.4s 100.0% 63
Azure 1m 27s 2m 24s 96.8% 63
GCP 9.7s 12.5s 100.0% 63

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 20.7s 24.8s 100.0%
us-east-1 20.3s 24.4s 100.0%
us-west-2 21.8s 23.9s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus 1m 40s 2m 18s 100.0%
northeurope 1m 22s 1m 31s 90.5%
westus2 1m 29s 2m 29s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 12.1s 12.7s 100.0%
us-east1 9.3s 10.3s 100.0%
us-west2 9.4s 10.1s 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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