Microsoft-owned GitHub says it'll move 50% traffic to Azure by July to help with outages

GitHub is blaming "extremely rapid" user growth for a spate of high-impact outages this year and said getting at least 50% of its traffic on Azure should help.

The Microsoft-owned git hosting platform said the most notable outages were caused by failover failures and teething issues as it struggles to cope with increased traffic.

In a blog shared Wednesday, CTO Vlad Fedorov said: "These incidents have occurred during a period of extremely rapid usage growth across our platform, exposing scaling limitations in parts of our current architecture.