Handshake incident

AWS outage impacting Handshake

Resolved after 14 hours, affecting Handshake for Students - US and Handshake for EDU Partners - US and 1 more, on October 20, 2025.

identified Oct 20, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

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

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 09:35 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 21, 2025, 11:35 AM UTC
Duration
14h
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 09:35 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. identified Oct 20, 2025, 09:35 PM UTC

    Primary Platform is degraded as a result of a major AWS services outage

  2. identified Oct 20, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

    The Handshake Platform is accessible and login has been restored, however, some features remain in a degraded state and are unavailable while continue to work towards full recovery.

  3. identified Oct 20, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Oct 21, 2025, 11:35 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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