Microsoft taps AWS to steady GitHub as AI demand soars

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Microsoft is sourcing capacity from Amazon Web Services to bolster GitHub amid a surge in AI-powered coding activity, reflecting a broader multi-cloud strategy as GitHub experiences outages and Microsoft accelerates its move to Azure while staying connected to rival cloud providers to keep services running.
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- Microsoft's pitch to enterprises: Ditch Azure Repos for GitHub, despite its rocky reliability record The New Stack
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