HackerRank incident

Amazon Web Services Outage Impacting Services

Major

Resolved after 1 hour 20 minutes, affecting Tests Code Evaluation and Tests Report and 1 more, on October 20, 2025.

resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:37 AM UTC

AWS has confirmed that their services have fully recovered. We are also not observing any errors with our core services. Report processing remains delayed, and we are continuing to monitor it closely.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 07:29 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 08:49 AM UTC
Duration
1h 20m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 07:29 AM UTC

Affected components

Tests Code EvaluationTests ReportInterviews Code Evaluation

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 07:01 AM UTC

    Due to an ongoing outage with Amazon Web Services (AWS), HackerRank's Test and Interview features, which depend on AWS, are also down. We will update based on changes published to their [status page](https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status)

  2. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 09:34 AM UTC

    As of October 20, 2025, 08:49 AM GMT, code evaluation is operational, and candidates should now be able to run their code on the platform. However, AWS services have not yet fully recovered, which is causing delays in report processing.

  3. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:37 AM UTC

    AWS has confirmed that their services have fully recovered. We are also not observing any errors with our core services. Report processing remains delayed, and we are continuing to monitor it closely.

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