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Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by enigmo » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

kqgnkqgn wrote: post #78

enigmo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the FreeBSD migration didn’t take that long - iirc this was the frontend migration to an IIS ISAPI. the Solaris bits (storage and routing tables) took far longer - and again iirc the frontend had been rewritten in C# before all the Sun hardware had been decommissioned.

Ah sounds like you actually might have been there. I'm sure you must have some interesting stories from that time

not in the Hotmail dev team but about as close as you could get otherwise. I even reported to their general manager for a minute or two.

fun times for sure.

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by rickette » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

theojulienne wrote: post #38

rickette wrote: post #27

Easy to criticize this, but I rather see GitHub survive than fail under its own success. So thanks for acting on this MS!

They were originally on their own datacenters + huge amounts of burst and ancillary stuff in AWS, the internal push to move away from "the competitor's cloud" after the acquisition was huge and entirely stupid. I'm ex-GitHub and was one of the annoying people constantly saying GitHub should only move where it was provably the best option for GitHub - the third best major cloud provider is likely never it on merits al…

Thanks for the insight, changes my perspective.

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by ilreb » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 1:10 PM UTC

amazingman wrote: post #54

kuschku wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I didn't read that thread? Last week I was at a conference, so I spent relatively little time on HN. That said, I likely wouldn't have read that thread even today. I prefer engaging more deeply with fewer stories. Another new AI benchmark result is of little interest to me, in contrast to a story about Microsoft stalling or even partially reversing the GitHub Azure migration.

It's a bot

says a loser with low karma who have been lurking in hn comments for more than a decade