Some GitHub jobs failing to connect

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1. investigating Mar 09, 2026, 02:59 PM UTC

   Status: Investigating We are investigating reports of some GitHub runners failing to connect to GitHub Affected components us-east-1 (Partial outage)

2. identified Mar 09, 2026, 03:08 PM UTC

   Status: Identified Errors seem to be caused in part by lack of instance capacity in our primary runner instance pool, we are activating a failover instance pool to unblock jobs. Affected components us-east-1 (Partial outage)

3. identified Mar 09, 2026, 03:20 PM UTC

   Status: Identified Failover capacity is online and job throughput is increasing. Affected components us-east-1 (Degraded performance)

4. identified Mar 09, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC

   Status: Identified AWS are experiencing broad capacity constraints around our preferred instance type, we are activating a fallback to secondary instance type to address. Affected components us-east-1 (Degraded performance)

5. monitoring Mar 09, 2026, 03:56 PM UTC

   Status: Monitoring All failover infrastructure is live and job service is restored. We will continue to address the underlying cause. Affected components us-east-1 (Degraded performance)

6. resolved Mar 09, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. Affected components us-east-1 (Operational)