Microsoft Reportedly Taps AWS for GitHub Capacity Amid AI-Driven Outages

Satya Nadella, Microsoft chairman and CEO

Microsoft is reportedly seeking help from its biggest cloud rival, Amazon Web Services, to address mounting capacity issues of GitHub. According to a report by Business Insider, this move of the company comes after a series of AI-driven outages on the coding platform, which Microsoft acquired in 2018. Despites its plans to migrate GitHub completely to Azure by 2027, increasing demand from AI coding tools has forced Microsoft to adopt a multi-cloud strategy. GitHub has witnessed an unprecedented spike in activity as AI-powered coding assistants make it easier for developers to generate software. GitHub commits records of code changes are projected to hit 14 billion in 2026, up from just 1 billion in 2025, COO Kyle Dingle wrote on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in April. This flood of new code has strained GitHub’s compute resources, leading to dozens of outages this year.

Multi-cloud strategy

A Microsoft spokesperson has also confirmed that GitHib is tapping multiple cloud providers to meet demand, though declined to comment on the involvement of AWS. “The incredible spike in agentic development that began late last year has tested our infrastructure’s limits,” the spokesperson said. Microsoft is accelerating its move to Azure while exploring a multi-cloud strategy to ensure elasticity and scale. Amazon, for its part, said customers choose AWS for reliable, secure, and efficient performance at scale, without confirming specific client arrangements. The decision is notable given Microsoft and Amazon’s fierce competition in the cloud market. Microsoft projected $190 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, largely to expand data center capacity, but delays have left GitHub vulnerable. Similar deals are emerging across tech: Google recently agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute capacity, while also selling compute to Anthropic. For Microsoft, the priority is keeping GitHub operational amid rising competition from AI-native platforms like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code. Critics, including HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto, have warned that GitHub risks losing credibility if outages persist. Microsoft executives have acknowledged internally that GitHub needs an overhaul to remain competitive in the AI era.

GitHub COO on AI 'Shit Code' overload

In related news, recently, GitHub's COO Kyle Daigle has gone on the record about the scale of what's hitting the platform—and the numbers are staggering. In response to a viral post from popular developer personality ThePrimeagen, who credited GitHub for "handling the amount of shit code added over the last three months," Daigle confirmed the growth is unlike anything the platform has seen before. There were one billion commits across all of 2025. Now GitHub is processing 275 million commits per week—putting it on pace for 14 billion this year if growth holds linear. GitHub Actions has exploded from 500 million minutes per week in 2023 to over 2.1 billion minutes in a single week this year. As for the shit code remark? Daigle's response was characteristically dry: "As a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that."