Handshake Outage History

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Handshake had 6 outages in the last 2 years totaling 21h 27m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 6 Handshake outages since June 6, 2025 totaling 21h 27m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.joinhandshake.com

Critical April 7, 2026

High Error Rate on Handshake

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 07, 2026, 07:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 07, 2026, 07:28 PM UTC
Duration
21m
Affected: Handshake for Students - USHandshake for EDU Partners - USHandshake for Employers - USInsights Reporting - USHandshake AI
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 07, 2026, 07:06 PM UTC

    We are investigating an incident affecting Handshake US and will provide updates here soon.

  2. monitoring Apr 07, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Apr 07, 2026, 07:28 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical October 20, 2025

AWS outage impacting Handshake

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 09:35 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 21, 2025, 11:35 AM UTC
Duration
14h
Affected: Handshake for Students - USHandshake for EDU Partners - USHandshake for Employers - US
Timeline · 4 updates
  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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Minor October 20, 2025

Phone verification service degradation

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC
Duration
3h 43m
Affected: Handshake for Students - USHandshake for Students - EU
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC

    We're currently experiencing an issue affecting our phone verification process due to an outage with one of our third-party providers.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 07:31 PM UTC

    We are seeing improved performance with phone verification. We are continuing to monitor.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 08:58 PM UTC

    Phone verification has mostly recovered. However our downstream services still are reporting some degradation. We are continuing to monitor.

  4. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

    Resolving this as phone verification has recovered

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Major September 5, 2025

Limited Applicant page functionality

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 05, 2025, 09:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 05, 2025, 09:48 PM UTC
Duration
35m
Affected: Handshake for Employers - USHandshake for Employers - EU
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Sep 05, 2025, 09:12 PM UTC

    Apologies from the Handshake Team. We are aware of the current issues with the Applicant page, and we are actively working to resolve them. We will provide updates as soon as possible.

  2. monitoring Sep 05, 2025, 09:33 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Sep 05, 2025, 09:48 PM UTC

    As of 2:37 pm PT, a fix has been implemented, and we can now confirm the issue has been resolved. We want to reassure our users that their data was not lost and all application candidate data remains accessible

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Notice June 12, 2025

Occasional Page Loading Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 12, 2025, 06:24 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 12, 2025, 08:59 PM UTC
Duration
2h 34m
Affected: Handshake for Students - USHandshake for Students - EUHandshake for EDU Partners - USHandshake for EDU Partners - EUHandshake for Employers - USHandshake for Employers - EUImporter - USImporter - EUInsights Reporting - USInsights Reporting - EU
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Jun 12, 2025, 06:24 PM UTC

    We’re experiencing occasional page load issues at this time. We’re currently investigating.

  2. investigating Jun 12, 2025, 06:53 PM UTC

    We’re investigating disruptions to certain parts of our website and product due to a Google Cloud outage. We are working on resolving the issue as soon as we can and will continue to update this page.

  3. investigating Jun 12, 2025, 07:19 PM UTC

    We’re continuing to investigate disruptions to certain parts of our website and product due to a Google Cloud outage. We are working on resolving the issue as soon as we can and will continue to update this page.

  4. monitoring Jun 12, 2025, 08:01 PM UTC

    We've received confirmation from Google that the root cause has been identified and is currently under remediation. Our platform has recovered for the majority of users, however some users may see some delays in search results as the issue continues to be resolved.

  5. monitoring Jun 12, 2025, 08:44 PM UTC

    Our platform is fully operational, however some users may continue to see some delays in search results as the issue continues to be resolved.

  6. resolved Jun 12, 2025, 08:59 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical June 6, 2025

Handshake US is down

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 06, 2025, 09:55 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 06, 2025, 10:05 AM UTC
Duration
10m
Affected: Handshake for Students - USHandshake for EDU Partners - USHandshake for Employers - US
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jun 06, 2025, 09:55 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating the issue.

  2. monitoring Jun 06, 2025, 10:04 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Jun 06, 2025, 10:05 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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