Author here, I ran a benchmark of VM boot times by launching ~5,000 VMs of different sizes on GCP. The code to replicate the benchmark is available open source here: <a href="https://github.com/robertaboukhalil/cloud-benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/robertaboukhalil/cloud-benchmarks</a><p>TL;DR: Boot time is <25s for VMs with ≤32 CPUs, and <1 min for VMs with ≤96 CPUs!