Outage in Handshake

AWS outage impacting Handshake

Resolved Major

October 20, 2025 - Started 3 months ago - Lasted about 15 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

Site is down due to the AWS outage

Components affected

Handshake for Students - US Handshake for EDU Partners - US Handshake for Employers - US

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED 3 months ago - at 10/21/2025 11:35AM

This incident has been resolved.

IDENTIFIED 3 months ago - at 10/20/2025 10:27PM

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

IDENTIFIED 3 months ago - at 10/20/2025 10:02PM

The site is back online. However, some features remain temporarily disabled as we continue to work on a full recovery.

IDENTIFIED 3 months ago - at 10/20/2025 09:35PM

Site is down due to the AWS outage

Latest Handshake outages

Phone verification service degradation - 3 months ago

Limited Applicant page functionality - 5 months ago

Occasional Page Loading Issues - 7 months ago

Handshake US is down - 8 months ago

Issue loading employer brand pages - about 1 year ago

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