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Microsoft forced to turn to AWS to boost GitHub cloud capacity following AI demand surge

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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.

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