Lever: Lever - Resume Parsing Outage
Lever reported a major resume parsing outage starting 2025-10-20 14:54 UTC, with intermittent parsing disruptions attributed to the AWS outage and residual issues at its resume parsing vendor. The incident was resolved at 2025-10-21 12:08 UTC after 21 h 14 min; customers could encounter intermittent disruptions when parsing resumes during that period.
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Affected components: Amazon Web ServicesThird-Party Infrastructure Dependencies - Amazon Web ServicesGlobal Data Center - LeverTRM - Hire
Timeline of updates
- identified
Due to the widespread AWS outage, we are experiencing intermittent issues with our resume parsing services. We will provide updates as soon as they become available.
- identified
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified
Although AWS has made significant progress in their recovery efforts, our resume parsing vendor continues to experience residual issues. As a result, users may still encounter intermittent disruptions with our resume parsing services. We are actively monitoring the situation and will provide further updates as they become available.
- resolved
Early on October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage in its US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, resulting in widespread disruptions across numerous platforms. Employ Services, along with several of our third-party vendors, were impacted by this outage, leading to intermittent functionality issues and periods of inaccessibility across our systems. The issue has since been resolved, and our teams continue to actively monitor for any residual effects to ensure full platform stability.
Rewindex changes for this incident
- Major incident: Lever - Resume Parsing Outage 2025-10-20 14:54 UTC
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