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Pinecone BYOC refers to Pinecone's Bring Your Own Cloud deployment model, which reached general availability on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. For enterprise-plan customers, the vector database's data plane runs inside their own cloud account and region while Pinecone continues to operate the service through its managed control plane. Azure shops can keep retrieval-augmented generation data in their own subscription on an AKS cluster, optionally reachable only through Azure Private Link. Coverage here centers on what the GA milestone changes for organizations weighing data residency, cloud account control and managed vector database operations.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Pinecone BYOC Goes GA, Keeps Vector Data in Your Cloud Account

    On September 23, 2026, Pinecone made its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment generally available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Enterprise-plan customers can now run the Pinecone vector database's data plane inside their own cloud account and region, while Pinecone keeps operating...