GitHub's AI-Agent Commit Surge Forces Microsoft to Route Traffic Through AWS

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Microsoft confirmed on June 16 it is routing GitHub traffic through AWS after autonomous coding-agent activity pushed the platform past reliability thresholds — 275M commits/week, nine outages in May, and June availability dropping below the 99.9% enterprise SLA. It's a vivid case of the capability-vs-reliability gap: agents that pass in testing overwhelm shared infrastructure in production. Builders relying on GitHub-hosted CI and agent workflows should plan for degraded SLAs and failover as machine-generated commit volume keeps climbing.