Cold start latency on GPU cloud platforms in 2026 — p99 specifically, not p50. Anyone have real data? [D]

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doing infrastructure evaluation for inference workloads and running into the same problem everywhere: every platform publishes p50 cold start claims or median startup times. nobody publishes p99. and p99 is the number that shows up in support tickets and SLA violations, not p50 what I’m specifically trying to understand: how does cold start p99 behave under load vs normal conditions — is there meaningful degradation when providers are at high utilization? does multi-provider pooling actually ...