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GitHub Outage Hits 50% Downloads, Microsoft Tools Affected

8/17/2026

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GitHub suffered an outage on Monday, August 17, 2026, beginning at 13:40 UTC (9:40 a.m. EDT), with 50% of content-download requests failing and web-traffic errors near 20% and archive-download failures at 50%.
GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Teams showed reduced availability, with hundreds of users reporting issues on DownDetector around 11:30 a.m. EDT.
SVP Jakub Oleksy said the firm is making structural changes to permanently remove failure modes.

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Story summary

GitHub suffered an outage on Monday, August 17, 2026, beginning at 13:40 UTC (9:40 a.m. EDT), with 50% of content-download requests failing and web-traffic errors near 20% and archive-download failures at 50%.
GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Teams showed reduced availability, with hundreds of users reporting issues on DownDetector around 11:30 a.m. EDT.
SVP Jakub Oleksy said the firm is making structural changes to permanently remove failure modes.