A device receives, from a first compute instance, a Remote Latency Call, that includes a target latency measure, a function, and one or more arguments for the function. The device clusters a plurality of compute instances into multiple clusters of compute instances based on a respective latency measure associated with each compute instance of the plurality of compute instances, and determines a first cluster of compute instances from the multiple clusters of compute instances that satisfies the target latency measure. The device causes a second compute instance within the first cluster of compute instances to execute the function, using the one or more arguments, and return one or more results.