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Pinecone outage: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on write operations for some indexes

Pinecone reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 9, 2025, 12:55 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 45m.

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Sep 9, 2025, 12:55 UTC
started
Sep 9, 2025, 14:40 UTC
resolved
1h 45m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • AWS us-east-1

Timeline

updates from Pinecone's status page ↗
  1. resolvedSep 9, 2025, 14:40 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringSep 9, 2025, 13:43 UTC

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

  3. investigatingSep 9, 2025, 12:55 UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

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.

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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 outage on Sep 9, 2025: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on write operations for some indexes · APIStatus.watch