CriticalIncident
Hugging Face Hub experienced 6-minute downtime — US Central CDN impacted
AI Impact Summary
Hugging Face Hub experienced a 6-minute service disruption on February 5th, 2026, primarily impacting downloads through US Central CDN endpoints. The root cause was a Google Cloud infrastructure issue, highlighting potential vulnerabilities in our CDN infrastructure. Users relying on XET-enabled repositories experienced stalled downloads, demonstrating the impact of regional outages on file transfer operations.
Hugging Face Hub experienced 6-minute downtime — US Central CDN impacted
Affected Systems
Hugging Face HubXET protocol
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- critical