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Pinecone: Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on some read and write operations

Summary

Pinecone reported a major outage causing 5xx errors on some Serverless read and write operations in AWS us-east-1. It started at 2025-09-10 13:16 UTC and was resolved at 2025-09-10 16:38 UTC, lasting 3 h 21 min. A fix was implemented at 13:22 UTC; no cause was stated.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 99%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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History of this incident

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Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on some read and write operations (this change)
Pinecone reported a major outage causing 5xx errors on some Serverless read and write operations in AWS us-east-1. It started at 2025-09-10 13:16 UTC and was resolved at 2025-09-10 16:38 UTC, lasting 3 h 21 min. A fix was implemented at 13:22 UTC; no cause was stated.
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