- GitHub Reportedly Using AWS to Fill Capacity Gap Amid Aggressive Growth
- 1 billion commitments in 2025 could turn into more than 14 billion in 2026
- Microsoft confirms its multi-cloud strategy for GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly turned to its biggest rival and largest hyperscaler by market share, Amazon Web Services, to support the push for cloud services as demand for GitHub services increases.
Business Insider reports that while the company previously set a goal of having GitHub running almost entirely on Azure by 2027, recent demand and insufficient capacity have led it to source its compute elsewhere.
This is all the result of GitHub’s Copilot AI tools 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 turns to AWS for compute amid coding boom
Already this year, GitHub has experienced a number of outages due to limited resources. Add in the fact that it’s facing increased pressure from AI-native rivals like Cursor and Claude Code, and GitHub’s aggressive growth goals are outpacing what Microsoft’s own cloud business, Azure, can keep up with.
“The incredible surge in agentic development that began late last year has tested the limits of our infrastructure,” a company spokesperson said, declining to comment specifically on AWS’s involvement but acknowledging its move to Azure and continued use of a “multi-cloud strategy to ensure we have future capacity.”
Amazon also declined to comment, noting that “customers choose AWS because they need global infrastructure that operates reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale.”
But Microsoft remains committed to developing its own infrastructure: capital investment spending is expected to reach $190 billion in 2026, much of which will be dedicated to data center capacity.
It’s unclear whether Microsoft remains on track to migrate GitHub to Azure by 2027.
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