As per the same question in Discord here is the same answer (and slighly expanded if others find this post)
It’s most likely a snafu with fastly the CDN in front of the API
It’s been worse of late but I’ve counted less than 10 total for my own calls across multiple servers (but I’m not like logging each fail anyway)
So if you get a timeout, just retry the request, this sort of thing is common with API’s in general, you get a bad hit on a server rebalancing, so just retry