CriticalIncident
Hugging Face Hub experienced 6-minute downtime — US Central CDN impact
AI Impact Summary
Hugging Face Hub experienced a 6-minute service interruption on February 5, 2026, primarily impacting downloads through US Central CDN endpoints. The root cause was a Google Cloud infrastructure issue, highlighting potential vulnerabilities in our CDN configuration. Users relying on XET-enabled repositories experienced stalled downloads, demonstrating a risk to data access and workflow disruptions.
Hugging Face Hub experienced 6-minute downtime — US Central CDN impact
Affected Systems
Hugging Face HubHub file downloads
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- critical