Pinecone incident
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces
Pinecone experienced a minor incident on July 12, 2026 affecting AWS us-east-1, lasting 4h 54m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
AWS us-east-1
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 12, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC
We are observing freshness lag affecting a small number of namespaces in AWS us-east-1, resulting in some queries not serving fresh data. We are actively investigating.
- identified Jul 12, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- resolved Jul 13, 2026, 01:24 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.