- GitHub Reportedly Using AWS to Close Capacity Gap Amid Aggressive Growth
- 1 billion pledges in 2025 could become more than 14 billion in 2026
- Microsoft confirms multi-cloud strategy for GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly turned to its biggest rival and the largest hyperscaler by market share, Amazon Web Services, to address pressure from cloud services as demand for GitHub services increases.
Insider business information reports that while the company had previously set a 2027 goal for GitHub to run almost entirely on Azure, recent demand and insufficient capacity has caused it to source computing from elsewhere.
It’s all a result of GitHub’s Copilot AI tools democratizing access to coding and increasing the output of existing coders, and the company now expects total commits in 2026 to reach 14 billion, up from 1 billion in 2025.
GitHub turns to AWS for computing amid coding boom
Already this year, GitHub has experienced a number of outages due to the pressure of limited resources. Add to that the fact that it faces increased pressure from AI-native rivals like Cursor and Claude Code, and GitHub’s aggressive growth goals surpass what Microsoft’s own cloud business, Azure, can keep up with.
“The incredible surge in agent 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 a global infrastructure that works reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale.”
But Microsoft remains committed to growing its own infrastructure: By 2026, capital spending is expected to reach $190 billion, much of which will be dedicated to data center capacity.
It is unclear whether Microsoft maintains its goal of migrating GitHub to Azure by 2027.
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