---
title: "Is Handshake down? Handshake status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/joinhandshake"
description: "Live Handshake status, what is affected right now, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Handshake down?

**Answer:** No, Handshake is not down. All Handshake systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T00:06:41Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Official status page: https://status.joinhandshake.com
- Website: https://joinhandshake.com

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Recent incidents

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-07 | [High Error Rate on Handshake](https://stspg.io/8g1d1bpm4w8b) | critical | 22m |
| 2025-10-20 | [AWS outage impacting Handshake](https://stspg.io/h3c9tf6npj3x) | critical | 14h |
| 2025-10-20 | [Phone verification service degradation](https://stspg.io/zhvmlv36bv3s) | minor | 3h 44m |
| 2025-09-05 | [Limited Applicant page functionality](https://stspg.io/jbs8f7tdqyrb) | major | 36m |
| 2025-06-12 | [Occasional Page Loading Issues](https://stspg.io/kh779x46q932) | incident | 2h 35m |

## Components (11)

All components operational.

Each component has its own page: /status/joinhandshake/{component}.md, for example /status/joinhandshake/handshake-for-students-eu.md

## Links

- HTML page: /status/joinhandshake
- Upstream: https://status.joinhandshake.com
- All services: /status.md