GitHub is facing a widespread outage affecting core developer services, authentication, downloads and Copilot, while Amazon continues to overhaul its AI strategy around frontier-model research.
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage causes errors across its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests and several other services. GitHub confirmed the outage at 9:40 AM EDT on August 17, saying it was investigating reports of performance issues affecting some of its services.
The disruption has quickly spread across several parts of GitHub that developers rely on, including API requests, Actions, Webhooks, Issues and Pull Requests. GitHub’s status page showed error rates of around 20% across its web experience and API traffic.
Outage affects repository downloads
GitHub said archive downloads and raw repository content downloads were experiencing error rates of approximately 50%. Authentication-related services are also facing problems, with SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM and Team Sync affected by the incident.
Some users are encountering server errors while trying to access GitHub, while others have reported problems loading commits, repositories and Pull Request pages.
GitHub Actions is also experiencing degraded performance, potentially affecting automated builds, tests, deployments and other workflows that depend on the platform’s CI/CD services.
At 10:31 AM EDT, GitHub confirmed that Copilot was also experiencing degraded availability, expanding the disruption to its AI-powered coding services.
Services including Git Operations, Packages, Pages and Codespaces remain operational, but several other important parts of the platform continue to experience degraded performance.
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GitHub has not disclosed the cause of the outage and said its investigation is ongoing.