Cloud Outages & Reliability
Major cloud and AI service outages: what failed and how to design for resilience.
- GitHub Adds 4 Million CPU Cores After Outages, Starts Running Actions Jobs on AWSGitHub has added 4 million CPU cores, 160 PB of storage and 50 Tb/s of network capacity in 2026 after AI-agent traffic caused outages, and eligible Actions Linux jobs can now run on AWS as well as Azure.
- How to Plan for a Cloud Region Outage: Lessons From the AWS us-east-1 and Google Cloud FailuresAWS's October 2025 us-east-1 outage and Google Cloud's June 2025 global failure were both caused by automation, not disasters. Here is what broke, what the providers changed, and how to pick and test a recovery strategy using RTO and RPO targets.