- GitHub reportedly uses AWS to close capacity gap amid aggressive growth
- 1 billion commits in 2025 could become 14 billion+ in 2026
- Microsoft confirms multi-cloud strategy for GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly approached its biggest rival and biggest hyperscaler by market share, Amazon Web Services, to pick up cloud services as demand for GitHub services increases.
Business Insider reports that while the company had previously set a goal of 2027 to have GitHub running almost exclusively on Azure, recent demand and insufficient capacity has prompted it to pull data from elsewhere.
It’s all a result of GitHub’s Copilot AI tools, which both democratize access to coding and increase the output of existing coders, with the company now expecting total commitments to reach 14 billion in 2026, 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 that the fact that it faces increased pressure from AI-native rivals such as Cursor and Claude Code, and GitHub’s aggressive growth targets are outpacing 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,” said a company spokesman, who declined to comment specifically on AWS’s involvement but acknowledged 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 works reliably, securely and efficiently at scale.”
But Microsoft is still committed to building out 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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