Changes / Pinecone / [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operations for some indexes

Pinecone: Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operations for some indexes

Summary

Pinecone reported a major outage affecting some read-path operations for some Serverless indexes in AWS us-west-2, starting 2025-08-28 18:30 UTC and lasting 1 h 54 min. A fix was implemented by 2025-08-28 20:18 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2025-08-28 20:25 UTC.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 84%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operations for some indexes (this change)
Pinecone reported a major outage affecting some read-path operations for some Serverless indexes in AWS us-west-2, starting 2025-08-28 18:30 UTC and lasting 1 h 54 min. A fix was implemented by 2025-08-28 20:18 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2025-08-28 20:25 UTC.
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