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GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub suffered a 7-hour, 47-minute global service outage on August 17 due to a capacity failure in a Central US data center infrastructure component overwhelmed by peak traffic.

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Aug 21, 2026

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