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Pinecone: Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx errors on some write path operations

Summary

Pinecone reported a major incident causing 5xx errors on some Serverless write path operations in AWS eu-west-1, affecting customers writing to indexes in that region. It started at 2025-11-06 14:38 UTC and was resolved at 2025-11-06 14:40 UTC, lasting 2 min; no cause or fix 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][eu-west-1] 5xx errors on some write path operations (this change)
Pinecone reported a major incident causing 5xx errors on some Serverless write path operations in AWS eu-west-1, affecting customers writing to indexes in that region. It started at 2025-11-06 14:38 UTC and was resolved at 2025-11-06 14:40 UTC, lasting 2 min; no cause or fix was stated.
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