Microsoft Routes GitHub Through AWS as AI Coding Agents Overwhelm Infrastructure
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Microsoft confirmed it is routing GitHub traffic through Amazon Web Services after AI coding agents overwhelmed Azure capacity. Pull requests by AI agents surged 325% in six months, and GitHub processed 275 million commits last week — on pace for 14 billion this year versus 1 billion in all of 2025.
Our Take
AI agents have grown so voracious that Microsoft's own cloud can't keep up with GitHub, forcing it to route traffic through rival Amazon — proof that infrastructure built for human developers can't survive the agentic era.
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