Serverless Containers Across AWS, Azure, GCP — Weekly Benchmarks for May 05 – May 11, 2026

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🐳 Serverless Containers — Weekly Provisioning Benchmarks

Window: May 05 – May 11, 2026 | Total runs: 189

AWS us-east-1 serverless containers slowed down +31% this week.

At a glance

Cloud	p50	p95	Reliability	Runs
AWS	22.3s	37.4s	100.0%	63
Azure	1m 16s	2m 29s	100.0%	63
GCP	9.7s	12.9s	100.0%	63

What changed this week

▼ AWS us-east-1: p50 latency 26.5s (was 20.2s, +31%)

Regional detail

AWS

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eu-north-1`	20.6s	24.6s	100.0%
`us-east-1`	26.5s	42.0s	100.0%
`us-west-2`	20.7s	25.0s	100.0%

Azure

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`eastus`	1m 03s	1m 38s	100.0%
`northeurope`	1m 17s	1m 31s	100.0%
`westus2`	1m 30s	2m 51s	100.0%

GCP

Region	p50	p95	Reliability
`europe-north1`	12.0s	13.7s	100.0%
`us-east1`	9.3s	10.8s	100.0%
`us-west2`	9.4s	10.7s	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.