GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Summary
The Register reports that GitHub experienced outages affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications, and Copilot, with the company publicly acknowledging service issues and delays. It notes that achieving five nines uptime is rare and discusses GitHub's 99.9% Enterprise Cloud SLA, the redesigned status page, and an unofficial status feed that suggests uptime problems extended into 2025. The piece emphasizes the need for planning for downtime as part of operational risk for customers relying on cloud platforms.