HighIncident
Hugging Face Hub experienced brief downtime on February 5, 2026
AI Impact Summary
The Hugging Face Hub experienced a 6-minute downtime on February 5, 2026, impacting file downloads, particularly via the XET protocol through US Central CDN endpoints. The root cause was an infrastructure issue in Google Cloud's us-central1 region, highlighting a dependency on a specific cloud provider. While the issue is resolved, users should be aware of potential disruptions related to this region and protocol.
Hugging Face Hub experienced brief downtime on February 5, 2026
Affected Systems
Hugging Face HubXET protocol
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- high