GitHub Experiences Service Outages Affecting Multiple Features Including Copilot
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Summary
GitHub experienced significant service disruptions in February, with multiple services including Actions, pull requests, notifications, and Copilot affected. The outages lasted for several hours, with Microsoft acknowledging delays of up to 50 minutes before services were gradually restored. The article criticizes the declining reliability of cloud services, suggesting that even achieving 'one nine' availability (90%) is becoming ambitious given frequent outages across the industry.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledScarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal.
GitHub has had a rough month so far. On February 9, Actions, pull requests, notifications, and Copilot all experienced issues.
The Microsoft tentacle admitted it was having problems with 'some GitHub services' at 1554 UTC before it confessed to notification delays of 'around 50 minutes'.
It took until 1929 UTC for the company to confirm that things were back to normal, although the delay was down to 'approximately 30 minutes' by 1757 UTC.
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