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

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

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

GCP us-west2 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 9.9s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 20.3s 31.4s 100.0% 63
Azure 1m 24s 2m 17s 100.0% 63
GCP 11.3s 13.9s 100.0% 63

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 20.3s 22.5s 100.0%
us-east-1 18.2s 49.0s 100.0%
us-west-2 21.9s 28.1s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus 1m 32s 2m 10s 100.0%
northeurope 1m 23s 2m 17s 100.0%
westus2 1m 21s 2m 07s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 12.2s 13.7s 100.0%
us-east1 11.2s 18.7s 100.0%
us-west2 9.9s 11.3s 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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