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Hugging Face has launched Storage Buckets, a mutable and non-versioned object storage layer for checkpoints, processed data, logs, and agent traces on the Hub. The company says Xet-based deduplication and cloud pre-warming should make large ML workflows faster and cheaper to operate.

Hugging Face introduced Storage Buckets on March 10, 2026 as non-versioned, S3-like storage for checkpoints, processed data, logs, and agent traces. The feature is built on Xet deduplication and includes pre-warming for AWS and GCP to move hot data closer to compute.