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Pinecone incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] `403 PermissionDenied` errors for read and write operations on some indexes and assistants

Pinecone reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 15, 2025, 15:52 UTC. It was resolved after 6 min.

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Sep 15, 2025, 15:52 UTC
started
Sep 15, 2025, 15:58 UTC
resolved
6 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • AWS us-east-1

Timeline

updates from Pinecone's status page ↗
  1. resolvedSep 15, 2025, 15:58 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringSep 15, 2025, 15:52 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Pinecone's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

How often does Pinecone have incidents?

Pinecone reported 9 incidents in the last 90 days, 6 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 15m. See Pinecone's uptime and incident history

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Pinecone incident on Sep 15, 2025: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] `403 PermissionDenied` errors for read and write operations on some indexes and assistants · APIStatus.watch