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Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for Sep 08 – Sep 14, 2026

🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: Sep 08 – Sep 14, 2026 | Total runs: 189

GCP us-west2 led serverless containers provisioning this week at p50 10.0s.

At a glance

Cloud p50 p95 Reliability Runs
AWS 20.2s 23.9s 100.0% 63
Azure 1m 24s 2m 34s 100.0% 63
GCP 11.0s 18.2s 100.0% 63

Regional detail

AWS

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eu-north-1 20.2s 22.6s 100.0%
us-east-1 17.2s 21.4s 100.0%
us-west-2 21.8s 25.0s 100.0%

Azure

Region p50 p95 Reliability
eastus 1m 36s 2m 34s 100.0%
northeurope 1m 24s 2m 33s 100.0%
westus2 1m 22s 1m 54s 100.0%

GCP

Region p50 p95 Reliability
europe-north1 12.0s 13.5s 100.0%
us-east1 10.7s 18.6s 100.0%
us-west2 10.0s 11.6s 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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