Huggingface Hub experienced brief downtime on February 5, 2026
AI Impact Summary
Hugging Face Hub experienced a 6-minute downtime on February 5, 2026, primarily impacting users accessing the platform via US Central CDN endpoints. The root cause was a Google Cloud infrastructure issue leading to stalled downloads, highlighting potential vulnerabilities in the CDN infrastructure. While the issue is resolved, this incident underscores the importance of robust CDN monitoring and redundancy.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- critical