It is human nature to start thinking about a problem after it has already occurred — we don’t like to learn from somebody’s mistakes, though it is a good idea. But what if we consider a situation when the GitHub online code repository stops working for a while? Well, such things happen sometimes, though GitHub is a highly reliable vendor with numerous compliance certificates and standards, like ISO/IEC 27001:2013, GDPR, FedRAM LI-SaaS ATO, SOC 1, and SOC 2, and it is a Trusted Cloud Provider with CSA.
Still, starting to use GitHub as a git repository service, it is great to know from the beginning what your responsibilities, as a user, are and what GitHub can guarantee. So, let’s figure out what both parties are responsible for and how it works because usually, customers don’t even think about this mentioned Shared Responsibility Model.
