In a surprise move, Microsoft is reportedly turning to cloud rival Amazon for additional computing power after a series of transactions. AI– associated interruptions (via Business Insider).
Microsoft bought GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion. The company promised to take good care GitHubempower developers at every stage of the development cycle, etc. But recent events show the opposite.
Maybe more GitHub’s own blog details how the service is not meeting its service level agreements (SLAs).. Before leaving the platform, Ghostty developer Mitchell Hashimoto carefully tracked every GitHub issue that hindered his workflow and recorded a 90.21% uptime, well below GitHub’s 99.9% SLA.
However, GitHub CCO Kyle Daigle stated that the company is actively working to resolve these issues. GitHub used to run in its own data centers, but after Microsoft’s acquisition, the company planned to move the service entirely to Azure by 2027.
As AI becomes more widespread and advanced, more software engineers and programmers are turning to the technology to write code faster, which has helped the platform flood with new code. As a result, it strained the computing resources of the platform.
For context, GitHub processed 1 billion commits in 2025. However, COO Kyle Daigle said that commitment notes, a proxy for the platform’s development activity, will reach 14 billion in 2026, a sharp jump from last year’s total.
“To handle this growth in activity, Microsoft is adding additional computing capacity through Amazon Web Services” Business Insider reports citing two people familiar with the plans.
Speaking at the launch, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that GitHub is seeking additional computing capacity from third-party cloud providers, but did not comment on its arrangement with Amazon:
“The incredible leap in agent development that began late last year tested the limits of our infrastructure. To meet this demand, Microsoft is both accelerating our transition to Azure and continuing to explore a multi-cloud strategy to ensure we have the future capacity, compute flexibility and horizontal scale required to support continued growth.”
Amazon declined to comment directly, but noted: “Customers choose AWS for its global infrastructure that delivers reliable, secure, and efficient performance at scale. We’re committed to delivering the best results for every workload.”
Elsewhere, shareholders filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoftclaimed the company was deliberately exaggerating Copilot’s success and partnership OpenAI. They also failed to disclose that Azure’s revenues were falling while Microsoft spent billions expanding its AI data center infrastructure.
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