Hugging Face Hub experienced 6-minute downtime on Feb 05, 2026
AI Impact Summary
Hugging Face Hub experienced a 6-minute downtime 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 infrastructure. Users relying on XET-enabled repositories for large file downloads were affected, and no action is required as the underlying issue has been resolved.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- high