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- GitHub reportedly using AWS to plug capacity gap amid aggressive growth
- 1 billion commits in 2025 could turn into 14 billion+ in 2026
- Microsoft confirms multi-cloud strategy for GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly turned to its biggest rival and the biggest hyperscaler by market share, Amazon Web Services, to pick up the cloud services strain as demand for GitHub services surge.
Business Insider reports that, while the company had previously set a target of 2027 to have GitHub running almost entirely on Azure, recent demand and insufficient capacity has caused it to source compute from elsewhere.
It's all a result of GitHub's Copilot AI tools both democratizing access to coding and increasing the output of existing coders, with the company now expecting total commits in 2026 to reach 14 billion, up from 1 billion in 2025.
GitHub reaches out to AWS for compute amid coding boom
Already this year, GitHub has experienced a number of outages as it faces strain from limited resources. Add to this the fact that it faces increased pressure from AI-native rivals like Cursor and Claude Code, and GitHub's aggressive growth targets outpace what Microsoft's own cloud business, Azure, can keep up with.
"The incredible spike in agentic development that began late last year has tested our infrastructure's limits," a company spokesperson said, declining to comment on AWS' involvement specifically but acknowledging its move to Azure and continued use of a "multi-cloud strategy to ensure we have the future capacity."
Amazon also declined to comment, noting that "customers choose AWS because they need global infrastructure that performs reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale."
But Microsoft is still committed to growing its own infrastructure – 2026 CapEx is expected to reach $190 billion, much of which will be dedicated to data center capacity.
It's unclear whether Microsoft remains on target to migrate GitHub to Azure by 2027.
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