According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system and technique for preprovisioning virtual machines is disclosed. The system includes a processing system configured to receiving requests for network computing resources and having a virtual machine (VM) manager configured to: analyze the requests and identify each different virtual machine configuration, each VM configuration having a plurality of configuration attributes; determine a request frequency corresponding to each requested VM configuration; determine a configuration of each provisioned VM on the network; responsive to determining the configuration of each provisioned VM, predict a configuration for a preprovisioned VM likely to be requested based on the frequency of the requested VM configurations and the configurations of the provisioned VMs; and create the preprovisioned VM on the network.