Microsoft Forced to Turn to Rival AWS as AI Surge Overwhelms GitHub on Azure
- Grace N
- Jun 16
- 1 min read

Microsoft has reportedly tapped Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle surging cloud capacity demands for GitHub. Driven by the massive popularity of GitHub's Copilot AI tools, code commits are projected to skyrocket from 1 billion in 2025 to over 14 billion in 2026. With its own Azure cloud struggling to keep up with this aggressive growth and facing recent outages, Microsoft has been forced to adopt a multi-cloud strategy to ensure reliable infrastructure.
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