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

Pinecone reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 28, 2025, 18:30 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 55m.

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Aug 28, 2025, 18:30 UTC
started
Aug 28, 2025, 20:25 UTC
resolved
1h 55m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • AWS us-west-2
  1. resolvedAug 28, 2025, 20:25 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringAug 28, 2025, 20:18 UTC

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

  3. investigatingAug 28, 2025, 18:30 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

Pinecone outage on Aug 28, 2025: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operations for some indexes · APIStatus.watch