Microsoft Reportedly Taps Amazon to Address GitHub's AI-Driven Growth & Frequent Outages

Back in April, GitHub officially apologized to users for frequent outages in the recent past, and promised that it is making foundational changes to lower such incidents going forward. Now, it seems Microsoft is stepping in by partnering with its immediate rival to keep things smooth for developers out there.

GitHub is reportedly adding capacity from Amazon’s cloud to address frequent outages amid massive demand

According to a new report from Business Insider Africa, Microsoft is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help GitHub manage a surge in AI-driven demand that has reportedly stretched its infrastructure to the limit. The move marks a notable shift for Microsoft, which has long planned to migrate GitHub fully onto Azure by 2027.

Rather, the software giant is now embracing a broader multi-cloud approach as AI coding assistants dramatically increase developer activity across the platform. Not to forget, GitHub has struggled with reliability issues throughout 2026, with multiple service disruptions affecting developers. The pressure appears to stem from the rapid rise of AI-powered coding tools, which are enabling engineers to generate and commit code at unprecedented rates.

Microsoft and Amazon remain tight-lipped about the partnership

In a statement to Business Insider, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the company is working with multiple cloud providers, though it declined to comment specifically on Amazon’s involvement.

“The incredible spike in agentic development that began late last year has tested our infrastructure’s limits,” the spokesperson told to the news outlet. Microsoft adds that it is “both accelerating our move to Azure and continuing to explore a multi-cloud strategy to ensure we have the future capacity, compute elasticity and horizontal scale required to support continued growth.”

Amazon is reportedly also mum to discuss individual customers but said, “customers choose AWS because they need global infrastructure that performs reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale, and we’re committed to providing the best performance no matter the workload.”