Pinecone outage, 28 September 2026

[Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency

Started
Resolved
28 Sept 2026, 04:20 UTC (after 8 min)
Impact
Minor
Affected
us-east-1-aws

Last update from Pinecone

The third party dependency recovered, this incident has resolved.

28 Sept 2026, 04:20 UTC

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Other Pinecone incidents

  1. [Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests

  2. [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize

  3. [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests

  4. [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath

  5. 5xx errors on some control plane operations

  6. [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests

  7. [SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces

  8. [SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexes

All recorded Pinecone incidents