# Incident Jan 2: Github outage

DevFeed: [Incident Jan 2: Github outage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/incident-jan-2-github-outage-80804.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://lovable.dev/blog/incident-github-outage>)

Author: Viktor Eriksson

Published: 2025-01-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Lovable](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/lovable.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Post Mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/post-mortem.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [cloud service outage management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-service-outage-management.md>), [GCP outage lessons learned](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gcp-outage-lessons-learned.md>)

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## AI overview

Lovable reports that GitHub disabled its app after the rate of repository creation violated GitHub's terms, causing a widespread outage. The company moved new projects to AWS S3, restored access when GitHub reinstated its app, and describes migration problems, race conditions, and planned reliability improvements.

## Source excerpt

Incident report for the GitHub outage on January 2-3, 2025