CriticalIncident
Hugging Face experienced 6-minute outage on Feb 05, 2026 — CDN disruption
AI Impact Summary
Hugging Face experienced a critical 6-minute outage on February 5, 2026, impacting file downloads via the XET protocol through US Central CDN endpoints. The root cause was a Google Cloud infrastructure issue, highlighting potential vulnerabilities in our CDN infrastructure. Users relying on Hub file downloads should be aware of this incident and monitor for similar disruptions.
Hugging Face experienced 6-minute outage on Feb 05, 2026 — CDN disruption
Affected Systems
Hub file downloadsXET protocol
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- critical