GitHub outage: Incident with Actions

1. resolvedMay 5, 2026, 17:26 UTC

   On May 5, 2026, from approximately 13:22 UTC to 17:05 UTC, GitHub Actions hosted runners in the East US region were degraded. 13.5% of jobs requesting a standard runner failed and ~16% of requested Larger Runners with private networking pinned to East US failed or were delayed by more than 5 minutes. Copilot Code Review requests were also impacted. Approximately 8,500 code review requests timed out during this window. Affected users saw an error comment on their pull requests and were able to retry by re-requesting a review. Most runner requests were picked up by other regions automatically, but a portion of requests still routing to East US were impacted.This was triggered by a scale-up operation for hosted runner VMs in the East US region. This is a regular operation, but the VM create load hit an internal rate limit when VM creates pull images from storage. Existing backoff logic was not triggered because of the response code returned in this case. The rate limiting and VM creation

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