Hugging Face services experienced a 6-minute outage on Feb 04, 2026

AI Impact Summary

A critical 6-minute outage impacted Hugging Face services on February 4, 2026, primarily affecting downloads through the US Central CDN endpoints. The root cause was a Google Cloud infrastructure issue, leading to stalled downloads and degraded performance for users. While the issue is resolved, this highlights potential vulnerabilities in our CDN infrastructure and the impact of regional outages on global users.