New record: 1.36 million GitHub Actions jobs in a single day

1,360,000 jobs in a single day. That’s the new record across all RunsOn users.

Six weeks ago we were knocking on the door of 1 million. We didn’t just cross that threshold — we blew past it by 36%.

To put it in perspective: that’s roughly 15.7 jobs launched every second, 24 hours straight. Each one a fresh, ephemeral EC2 instance that spins up, runs, and terminates — no state left behind, no drift, no cleanup.

What’s driving the growth#

The jump from 990k to 1.36M isn’t coming from one or two large customers. It’s broad-based:

• New teams onboarding every week, many migrating from GitHub-hosted runners or other self-hosted solutions
• Existing teams scaling up, adding more workflows and parallelizing test suites now that runners are fast and cheap enough to use liberally
• Larger instance types gaining traction — teams discovering that a 30-minute build on a 2-vCPU runner becomes a 6-minute build on a 16-vCPU one, and it costs less overall

Why teams keep choosing RunsOn#

1. Up to 10x cheaper than GitHub-hosted runners
2. Faster builds thanks to better hardware and VPC-local caching
3. Your AWS account, your data — no code or secrets leave your infrastructure
4. Minutes to set up with a single CloudFormation stack
5. Zero maintenance — ephemeral runners mean no server management

What’s next#

We’re not slowing down. The roadmap includes continued performance improvements, more observability, and making the setup experience even smoother.

Thank you to every team running their CI/CD on RunsOn. You’re the reason these numbers keep climbing.

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